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• Convicts Creolization and Cosmopolitanism in the British and French Empires

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/convicts-creolization-and-cosmopolitanism-in-the-british-and-french-empires

  Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism in the British and French Empires, funded by the Leverhulme Trust is the first interdisciplinary and comparative study of descent and descendants among these non-Europeans, during the period since the 1780s when individual...

• Conference World and the Avoidance of Thought

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/08/27/conference-world-and-the-avoidance-of-thought/

  Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on August 27, 2015 Having just returned from another major international conference, Professor Martin Parker is coming to suspect that they’re rarely worth the fuss At the beginning of August, what must surely be the largest...

• Introducing the Library’s Inclusive Collections Group

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/03/13/introducing-the-librarys-inclusive-collections-group/

  Posted by khn5 in Library and Learning Services on March 13, 2023 The University is working to develop a more inclusive curriculum, to make our teaching more inclusive and more responsive to our diverse student body.

• Leicester expert discusses recent tensions between the US and North Korea

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-expert-discusses-recent-tensions-between-the-us-and-north-korea

  Dr Andrew Futter from the School of History, Politics and International Relations has written an article for Think: Leicester discussing recent tensions between the United States and North Korea and the possible ramifications of cyber attacks.

• Lecture to explore the emerging blood test helping to spot cancer earlier

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/lecture-to-explore-the-emerging-blood-test-helping-to-spot-cancer-earlier

  Research into a blood test that may spot cancers sooner and allow more targeted treatment is to be presented by researcher at our University. Professor Jacqui Shaw (pictured) from our Department of Cancer Studies will give the Frank May Prize Lecture 2017 on 26 June at 5.

• Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies explores interdisciplinary research one step at a time through the power of walking

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/walking

  A new University of Leicester project hopes to explore the ‘power of walking’ and how it impacts academics’ research processes.

• Expertise and support for businesses

  https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/services-for-business

  Find out about the different ways that the Department of Informatics at the University of Leicester can help support your business - from student placements to consultation and training.

• Report suggests democratisation is key to protecting animals

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/report-suggests-2018democratisation2019-is-key-to-protecting-animals

  A groundbreaking new report from the Centre for Animals and Social Justice, and involving Leicester research,  recommends fundamental changes to the way the government makes animal welfare policy.

• Cartooning in South Africa: Jonathan Zapiro on the Post-Apartheid ‘Rainbow Nation’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/01/11/cartooning-south-africa-jonathan-zapiro-post-apartheid-rainbow-nation/

  Political cartoonist Jonathan Zapiro (South Africa) is interviewed by Shout Out UK Young Writer Laura Brick.

• Unrequited Love: The Enduring Pain of Convictism in Western Australia

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/05/22/unrequited-love-the-enduring-pain-of-convictism-in-western-australia/

  Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on May 22, 2017 By Kellie Moss The sentence of transportation signified the physical removal, or banishment of convicts, from the wider social body to colonies overseas.