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• Holocaust Memorial Day: The catalyst for change

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/holocaust-memorial-day

  Thursday, 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day, a time to reflect on the past to safeguard the future. At Leicester, the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies plays a pivotal part in achieving this goal.

• Conference Report: Forced Labour, Confinement and Represssion: European, Imperial and Post-Colonial

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/02/09/conference-report-forced-labour-confinement-and-represssion-european-imperial-and-post-colonial-perspectives/

  Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on February 9, 2017   Two weeks ago, a joint workshop on ‘Forced labour, confinement and repression: European, Imperial and Post-Colonial Perspectives’ was hosted by The Carceral Archipelago project and The Stanley Burton...

• Academic appeals

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/appeals-complaints/academic-appeals

  These webpages are intended to explain the Academic Appeals process as detailed in Senate Regulation 10. Please read these pages before submitting an Academic Appeal.

• Scientists discover prehistoric Kite Runner

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/scientists-discover-prehistoric-2018kite-runner2019

  Scientists have discovered an ancient animal that carried its young in pouches or capsules tethered to the parent’s body like tiny, swirling kites. The miniscule creature, Aquilonifer spinosus, was an arthropod that lived about 430 million years ago.

• Student raises over 12000 for The Myton Hospices in memory of her mum

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/student-raises-over-ps12-000-for-the-myton-hospices-in-memory-of-her-mum

  A tenacious student from our University has spent the last year working tirelessly to raise money for The Myton Hospices as thanks for the fantastic support they gave her mum during her final days in their care.

• Halloween event on campus promotes food waste reduction

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/04-pumpkin-rescue

  Students and staff learned about recycling and how to minimise wastage at a Halloween event on campus last week. Our Social Impact Team organised the Pumpkin Rescue event to show that hollowing out a Halloween pumpkin doesn’t have to involve throwing away perfectly good food.

• Ethnography Symposium

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/research-events/ethnography-symposium

  18th Annual Ethnography Symposium (online only), Living with failure all around: hope in the midst of despair? 27 — 29 August 2025 All around us, we find failure. Most immediately, higher education is in crisis.

• Researcher scoops early career award to tackle female-specific susceptibility to diseases

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/springboard

  A University of Leicester academic is among a group of ‘exceptional’ biomedical and health researchers awarded a total of £6.6 million

• Leicesters approach was truly trailblazing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/2018leicester2019s-approach-was-truly-trail-blazing2019

  The University has won the 2015 UAR Openness Award for animal research public engagement activity.

• Tea coffee and a slice of midlife

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/tea-coffee-and-a-slice-of-mid-life

  Leicester is the first university in the UK with a workplace menopause policy - and now we're launching the region’s first Menopause Café.