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Advancing the protection of migrants human rights
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/advancing-the-protection-of-migrants2019-human-rights
Leicester Law School lecturer Alan Desmond has recently edited an international collaborative book on the UN Migrant Workers Convention and its potential to advance the protection of migrants’ human rights.
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Research Groups
https://le.ac.uk/division-of-primary-care/research-groups
Find out more about the research groups for the Division of Primary Care research at the University of Leicester.
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What are children worried about?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/what-are-children-worried-about/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 The latest annual Good Childhood report from the Children’s Society measures children’s subject well-being and happiness.
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University lends its support to ‘Stand Up To Cancer’ campaign
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/stand-up-to-cancer-campaign
Professor Karen Brown from the Leicester Cancer Research Centre sends a message on the importance of cancer screening.
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University stamp features on postbox to mark the 50th anniversary of Royal Mail Special Stamps
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-stamp-to-feature-on-postbox-in-leicester-to-mark-the-50th-anniversary-of-royal-mail-special-stamps
The stamp of the University of Leicester issued in 1971 was unveiled today by President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle on a post box in Leicester to mark the 50th anniversary of Royal Mail’s much-loved modern Special Stamps programme.
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Major new hate crime study to shape improved support services for victims
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/major-new-hate-crime-study-to-shape-improved-support-services-for-victims
A major new study to investigate hate crime in the West Midlands and to shape the development of improved support services for victims is being led by our University.
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University of Leicester rated one of the best in the world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/16-university-of-leicester-rated-one-of-the-best-in-the-world
The University of Leicester is ranked one of the top 200 universities in the world and top 25 in the UK according to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2020.
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The Census@Leicester Project
https://le.ac.uk/enterprise/expertise/social-science/esrc-impact-acceleration-account/iaa-funded-projects/census
In a new age of ‘super diversity’ and ‘minority majority’ cities, Leicester is becoming increasingly unique in its socio-demographic make-up.
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Hive of activity how genes turn bees into workers and queens
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/hive-of-activity-how-genes-turn-bees-into-workers-and-queens
Biologists have discovered that one of nature’s most important pollinators - the buff-tailed bumblebee – either ascends to the land of milk and honey by becoming a queen or remains a lowly worker bee based on which genes are ‘turned on’ during its lifespan.
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Prestigious Japanese documentary features Leicester researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-nhk-documentary-genomics
Japanese broadcaster NHK will feature the University of Leicester in a documentary show ‘NHK Special’, which will focus on developments in genomics. The documentary will air on Sunday 5 May, with the show attracting audiences in Japan in excess of 10 million people.