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• Contact us

  https://le.ac.uk/american-studies/about/contact

  Find out how to get in touch with the Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester by email, telephone and in person. You can also follow us on our social media channels.

• First post-Covid International Astronomy Conference at the University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/01/planet-and-binary-formation-conference-at-the-university-of-leicester/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 1 November 2022 An international astronomy conference on planet and binary formation took place at University of Leicester in mid-September 2022.

• Recognising the support needs of victims

  https://le.ac.uk/hate-studies/research/recognising-the-support-needs-of-victims

  Learn about our report on recognising the support needs of victims - a piece of research conducted by the University of Leicester's Centre for Hate Studies. The research examined the specialist support needs of hate crime victims in Hertfordshire.

• Research degrees

  https://le.ac.uk/medieval/study/research-degrees

  The Medieval Research Centre at Leicester has a research culture that is perfect for pursuing advanced research in medieval studies. Find out more about PhD and MPhil opportunities offered by our affiliated departments.

• About

  https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/about

  The Impact of Diasporas programme was driven by six concurrent projects each using evidence and ideas from more than one specialism to ask new questions of evidence and develop new approaches to the study of the impact of deep‐time diasporas.

• Student profile: Niamh

  https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/student-profiles/niamh-esrc-midlands-grad

  Niamh is studying on the Human Geography Pathway with the ESRC Midlands Graduate School. Read more about her experiences of studying a PhD at Leicester.

• Outreach

  https://le.ac.uk/american-studies/outreach

  Arrangements can made for American Studies lecturers from the University of Leicester to give talks to schools - free of charge - on their specialist subject areas. Find out more about talks offered and how you can arrange a talk for your school.

• Convicts, Collecting and Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Century

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/27/convicts-collecting-and-knowledge-production-in-the-nineteenth-century/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 27, 2015 In previous blogs, I have explored some of the circulations and connections that linked nations, colonies and empires, and wove together practices of punishment and penal labour across polities and imperial spaces.

• New insights into life and death of Jumbo the elephant revealed in BBC One documentary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/new-insights-into-life-and-death-of-jumbo-the-elephant-revealed-in-bbc-one-documentary

  New insights into the life and mysterious death of Jumbo the elephant – a celebrity animal superstar whose story is said to have inspired the film ‘Dumbo’ – will be revealed in a BBC One documentary hosted by Sir David Attenborough and featuring a University of Leicester...

• New species of ancient tongue worm discovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/new-species-of-ancient-tongue-worm-discovered

  An international team of scientists led by Leicester researchers has discovered a new species of fossil - a 'tongue worm' - in England and have identified it as an ancient parasitic intruder.