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Internationally renowned novelist joins Leicester’s top academics to discuss why climate change has been banished from fiction books
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/dr-amitav-ghosh
Distinguished author and Booker prize nominee, Dr Amitav Ghosh, will join top scientists and a world-leading historian to explore how the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences have shaped, and can shape, our thinking about the climate emergency.
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Work Life Balance
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2016/08/24/work-life-balance-2/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on August 24, 2016 So, I am aware that the summer is nearly over and soon it will be the start of another University year. Seems reasonable to reflect on work-life balance.
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Benedict Cumberbatch relives Richard III reinterment in new interview
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/benedict-cumberbatch-relives-richard-iii-reinterment
Benedict Cumberbatch has described the moment he received an email from the University advising him he was related to King Richard III.
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Is it possible to cry a river?
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/is-it-possible-to-cry-a-river-after-tottenhams-defeat-leicester-research-examines-plausibility-of-shedding-enough-tears-to-form-a-river
Musicians Arthur Hamilton, Justin Timberlake and unsympathetic people across the world have encouraged others to ‘cry me a river’, a put-down phrase to make light of people’s problems.
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Postgraduate programmes
https://le.ac.uk/american-studies/study/postgraduate
The University of Leicester offers a number of postgraduate degrees with American Studies.
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Yuan Gao
https://le.ac.uk/people/yuan-gao
The academic profile of Dr Yuan Gao, Lecturer at University of Leicester
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August 2025
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/almanac/august
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Monira named Volunteer of the Year
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/monira-named-volunteer-of-the-year2019
Monira Mubaarak, a second year Psychology undergraduate student, has been presented with the Frank May Cup after being named the ‘Volunteer of the Year’.
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Challenging the notion of ‘neutrality’ in social media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/02/11/challenging-the-notion-of-neutrality-in-social-media/
Challenging the notion of 'neutrality' in social media University of Leicester School of English Staff blogs
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Virtual Vauxhall Gardens
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/vvg/2019/04/02/virtual-vauxhall-gardens/
Posted by in Virtual Vauxhall Gardens on April 2, 2019 Introduction Virtual Vauxhall Gardens is a multidisciplinary project to create a multi-sensory, user-controlled, VR reconstruction of the experience of Vauxhall Gardens in 1752.