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  • Acclaimed economist David Blanchflower to hold lecture on Trump and Brexit at our University

    Our School of Business will be hosting a free public lecture by acclaimed economist David Blanchflower. David will be offering unique insights into the election of Donald Trump to the White House and the EU referendum on Wednesday 25 January.

  • Stephen Fry reveals previously untold LGBTQ history

    Our University is working with the  National Trust is celebrating LGBTQ heritage, to reveal new information about Felbrigg Hall’s last squire, Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer.

  • Effects of alcohol on memory while providing testimony explored by Leicester researchers

    Leading research into the effects of alcohol on memory and guidance on how police officers can interview rape complainants who were intoxicated at the time of assault was presented last month by experts from our University.

  • New free online course provides PhD application support

    A free online course which provides support for potential postgraduate researchers is to be offered by our University and will begin on 4 September.

  • Radicals and Romans modern and ancient societies examined in next Doctoral Inaugural Lectures

    Signet rings and social media are topics that may seem worlds apart, but two of our recent doctoral graduates will be speaking on how each of these is providing us with new insights into society.

  • Research suggests controversial test could be leading to unnecessary open heart operations

    An approved international test to check whether people need open heart surgery could be sending twice as many people under the knife unnecessarily, at a cost of nearly £75m, research by our University has suggested.

  • The outlawed Shrove Tuesday tradition of Leicester

    Shrove Tuesday – taking place this year on 28 February – often involves the flipping of savoury and sweet pancakes, but prior to 1846 the city of Leicester had its own very particular way of celebrating the event.

  • University academic shortlisted for prestigious biology award

    Dr Sarah Gretton (pictured) from our Centre for Interdisciplinary Science has been shortlisted as a finalist for the HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year Award given by the Royal Society of Biology.

  • Earth history opens a new chapter

    An international group of scientists has proposed that fallout from hundreds of nuclear weapons tests in the late 1940s to early 1960s could be used to mark the dawn of a new geological age in Earth history – the Anthropocene.

  • New hope for gay communities following Typhoon Haiyan

    Many LGBT people in Tacloban, Philippines have achieved new-found acceptance in their communities, including a dramatic rise in the number of people using dating applications such as Grindr and Tinder, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, according to research co-led...

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