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• 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.

• Staff and students to climb Everest in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/staff-and-students-to-climb-everest-in-leicester

  The Attenborough Tower, the tallest building on the University of Leicester’s campus, stands at 52 metres high. Mount Everest is 171 times higher, at 8848 metres. On Wednesday 6 May, between 9.30am and 3.

• Expert opinions cover childbirth and the media Junos goals and Theresa May

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-opinions-cover-childbirth-and-the-media-junos-goals-and-theresa-may

  Dr Ranjana Das from the Department of Media and Communication has written an article for Think: Leicester discussing why we need to look at childbirth and the media, and the 'Birth Stories' project she is involved in.

• Join Jane Austen and zombie experts for pre-Halloween screening and panel

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/11-pp-and-zombies

  Experts on 19th century literature and the undead will come together for a pre-Halloween event at the University of Leicester on 29 October when the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies presents a free screening of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, followed by a discussion...

• Historian in TV series

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/historian-in-tv-series

  Dr Michael Lynch (pictured), Honorary Fellow in our School History, Politics & International Relations, has been involved in a number of TV series on modern history in recent years.

• Cider in Unexpected Places? Rural Chile and the Cider Pressing – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/08/24/cider-in-unexpected-places-rural-chile-and-the-cider-pressing/

  Deborah Toner discusses the social and cultural importance of cider making in rural Southern Chile in South America, summarising the work of Anton Daughters that appears in recent book Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History, edited by Gretchen Pierce and...

• Publications

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

  Articles published on the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain by key academics and researchers.

• Publications

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

  Recent articles by Professor Mark Jobling and his team S Harding, M Jobling and T King (Foreword by Michael Wood), Viking DNA: The Wirral and West Lancashire Project.

• New study to assess skills and attributes students gain during studies

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/new-study-to-assess-skills-and-attributes-students-gain-during-studies

  University life is often described as the best time of your life – now our University is taking part in a new study to assess the skills and attributes students gain during the course of their degrees.

• Research areas

  https://le.ac.uk/research/areas

  We are proud to be one of the world’s leading research-intensive universities. Our research changes the way we think about the past, present and future. Browse our research areas.