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• Industry and academia partners to join European research initiative to fight Alzheimers dementia

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/industry-and-academia-partners-to-join-european-research-initiative-to-fight-alzheimers-dementia

  An alliance of academia and industry, including the University of Leicester, has announced the start of a novel collaboration, the European Prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia (EPAD) Initiative, to test innovative treatments for the prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia.

• Paris and the rush to remember the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/paris-and-the-rush-to-remember-the-aftermath-of-the-2005-london-bombings

  A call for any memorial event following the Paris attacks to be ‘more sensitively handled’ than the official response to the 2005 London bombings has been made by Dr Matthew Allen, Lecturer in Culture and Political Economy in the School of Management.

• The Importance and Value of Views of England and Wales

  https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/blog/views-england-wales

  Views of England and Wales is the latest collection to be added to University of Leicester Special Collections Online. It is the culmination of a project to digitise over 2,000 prints, paintings, drawings and photographs belonging to the Centre for Regional and Local History.

• Decolonising the Curriculum: How is black history taught in schools?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/11/29/decolonising-the-curriculum-how-is-black-history-taught-in-schools/

  Posted by apatel in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on November 29, 2018 Angelina Osborne,  on BBC Woman’s hour discussing Olive Morris and her legacy as a black activist. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNInrtwW4AAas0q.

• India students sign up for new computer science degree that spans two continents

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/indian-students-computer-science-degree-spans-continents

  Students in India have made history after embarking on a new degree which will see them split their studies between The Apollo University (TAU), in the subcontinent, and the University of Leicester.

• Daniela Rudloff

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/dr135/

  I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed Posted by Daniela Rudloff in School of Business Blog on March 23, 2016 Okay, I lied. I’m angry and disappointed. I also feel tired, defeated and fed up. (Women, eh? Always with the multitasking.

• ‘Permissible Beauty’ – New immersive installation at Hampton Court Palace will explore changing notions of beauty through history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/permissible-beauty

  Why are some forms of beauty more permissible, more highly valued, than others? A new immersive installation at Hampton Court Palace will bring past and present together to explore this question and to celebrate a new chapter of British Beauty for the 21st century.

• Creative Computing with Foundation Year BSc

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/creative-computing-with-foundation-year-bsc/2026

  Combine creativity and computing with our Creative Computing course. If you don’t quite have the entry requirements to study computing at Leicester, this STEM Foundation Year degree is your starting point.

• The politics of comparison: writing a global history of punishment

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/02/05/the-politics-of-comparison-writing-a-global-history-of-punishment/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on February 5, 2015 The Carceral Archipelago project faces enormous challenges in writing the history of punishment as global history.

• Medicinal Chemistry BSc

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/medicinal-chemistry-bsc/2026

  Every infection-fighting and disease-treating drug owes a great debt to chemistry. In this degree, you’ll be given a solid grounding in chemistry and its role alongside drug development.