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• Simon Dixon: Page 4

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/simon_dixon/page/4/

  I am Archives and Special Collections Manager within the University Library. My role is to manage and develop the Library's and other University research collections and exploit digital technologies to reach new audiences for these collections.

• Leicester delegation to COP30 includes experts covering climate from every angle

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/cop30-attendees

  |A delegation of experts from the University of Leicester is heading to the Conference of the Parties, or COP30, to bring the latest insights into climate change to policymakers and officials.

• Thinking sociologically about the history of convicts and penal colonies

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/02/25/thinking-sociologically-about-the-history-of-convicts-and-penal-colonies/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on February 25, 2016 In the early 1990s I had the privilege of studying with David Garland, then teaching and researching in Edinburgh University’s Law School.

• Cutting edge Nottingham company welcomes University of Leicester chemistry alumnus to its R&D team

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/promethean-chemistry-alumnus

  University of Leicester chemistry graduate Kale Cooke has joined a spin-out company tackling global issues associated with climate change with sustainable chemistry

• Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s-1948

  https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/jewish-dress-migration-belonging

  External partners and collaborators|Dress expresses intimate feelings of belonging and identity. A focus on dress is especially rewarding when looking at migrant societies in which people from diverse backgrounds have often different ideas of how one should dress and why.

• Surnames and the Y chromosome

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-impact-of-diasporas-on-the-making-of-britain/the-diasporas-projects/surnames-and-the-y-chromosome

  Dr Turi E King, Research Fellow and Project Manager of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain. Lead researcher on 'The Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in the North of England' project. Research Fellow: Dr Turi King  In Britain, we have heritable surnames.

• Sami Zubaida

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sami-zubaida

  We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.

• Liz Anderson

  https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/liz-anderson

  Professor Liz Anderson completed a graduate nursing course at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, working on a cardio-thoracic surgical ward before moving to Leicester to train and work as a Midwife and Health Visitor.

• Staffordshire Archives and Heritage

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/12/06/staffordshire-archives-and-heritage/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on December 6, 2021 Previously, we have discussed the collections from Keele University that the UOSH Midlands hub has worked with. These have given us a glimpse into the history of Staffordshire.

• University involved in new Enterprise Zone

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/university-involved-in-new-enterprise-zone

  A new ground-breaking research and development-led Enterprise Zone (EZ), which involves the University of Leicester, was announced in the budget on 16th March.