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University of Leicester report finds 45% of UK’s east and southeast Asian people experienced hate crime in the last year
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/race-study
An alarming report co-authored by the University of Leicester has revealed hate crime experienced by east and southeast Asian (ESEA) people in the UK remains chronically underreported.
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Hamish Simpson
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/hamish-simpson
We have learned, with great sadness, of the death of Professor Hamish Simpson, former Professor of Paediatrics, who passed away on 4 March 2025, aged 91. Hamish Simpson was born on 23 December 1933 in Glasgow.
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Medicine offers weight-loss hope for patients with type-2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/surpass-2
New research by academics at the University of Leicester published today (Friday) has given fresh hope to patients with type-2 diabetes, after Eli Lilly and Company’s SURPASS-2 clinical trial showed that 60% of patients achieved a 10% percent or greater weight loss with 15 mg...
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Garth Smithies Taylor (1896-1916)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/14/garth-smithies-taylor-1896-1916/
15 October 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Lieutenant Garth Smithies Taylor, a name which many staff and students at the University will have unwittingly passed on numerous occasions when entering the Fielding Johnson Building.
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History makers – first cohort of Leicester-Chongqing students graduate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/history-makers-first-leicester-chongqing-students-graduate
History was made in China this week, as the first students to embark on a dual honours programme from the University of Leicester and Chongqing Medical University (CQMU) graduated.
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Research in Leicester will test new treatment target for sepsis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/20-sepsis-research-bhf
New research undertaken at the University of Leicester and funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) could identify new treatments for a life-threatening condition.
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Permissible Beauty
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/permissible-beauty
Permissible Beauty examines how beauty has been defined, hailed and perceived in the past and how this is reflected in – and shaped by – our nation’s heritage.
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Celebrating women in space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/dr-suzie-imber-takes-part-in-uk-space-agency-womeninspace-video
To mark and celebrate International Women's Day 2018, the UK Space Agency invited women working across the space sector to share their advice on pursuing a career in the field and discuss why it is such an exciting sector to work in.
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Thailand government joins forces with University of Leicester to launch UK scholarship for 50 Thai students
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/thailand-government-university-leicester-uk-scholarship-thai-students
University of Leicester and Thai government launch scholarships to support Thai students studying in the UK, strengthening international ties.
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Beginnings; Queer Diasporas: a new research project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/09/29/beginnings-queer-diasporas-a-new-research-project/
Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in School of English Blog on September 29, 2014 I started work on my new project, Queer Diasporas: Islam, Homosexuality and a Micropolitics of Dissent , based at the School of English, University of Leicester, in September 2014, after...