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• Public lecture will see experts discuss how to police sexual violence

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/scarman

  Sexual violence against women and girls in Britain will be discussed by experts in a public lecture at University of Leicester this month.

• School of Business shaping initiatives to boost local enterprise

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/school-of-business-to-help-shape-local-initiatives

  Businesses across the East Midlands are being asked to identify and rank their greatest concerns for the coming 12 months. The question is being posed in the first East Midlands Chamber Quarterly Economic Survey of 2018, in partnership with the School of Business.

• Researchers shed light on why and how Stonehenge was built

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/researchers-shed-light-on-why-and-how-stonehenge-was-built

  Excavation of two quarries in Wales by a team of archaeologists and geologists - including Dr Rob Ixer, a researcher with the Department of Geology - has confirmed they are sources of Stonehenge’s ‘bluestones’, shedding light on how they were quarried...

• Leicester scientist discusses BepiColombo mission to Mercury

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/leicester-professor-discusses-bepicolombo-mission-to-mercury

  Professor Emma Bunce, Principal Investigator of the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS) - one of the main instruments on the upcoming BepiColombo Mercury mission which was designed and built by Leicester researchers, has been interviewed about the mission for BBC...

• Nuclear expert sheds light on ‘War Factories’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/war-factories

  A nuclear expert from the University of Leicester has featured on a new UKTV documentary covering the industry of conflict. Andrew Futter is a Professor of International Politics and a leading academic in the politics of nuclear weapons.

• The Enemy Within A Tale of Muslim Britain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/the-enemy-within-a-tale-of-muslim-britain

  Ex-Chair of the Conservative Party, Senior Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and once a Minister for Faith and Communities, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi was the first Muslim woman to attend Cabinet in Britain.

• Nominations Committee

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/committees/council/nominations

  See the Nominations Committee's terms of reference and membership, including details of their role, responsibilities, reporting hierarchy and meetings.

• Data protection

  https://le.ac.uk/ias/data-protection

  The University's code of practice for data protection is maintained and supported by the Legal and Information and Assurance Service.

• Road noise makes your blood pressure rise – literally

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/road-noise

  Study shows the sound of traffic is associated with increased risk of hypertension, calls for public health measures to reduce noise exposure

• Genetic risk for atypical heart attack in women identified

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/08-genetic-risk-for-atypical-heart-attack-in-women-identified

  New research published by teams from Leicester, UK and Paris, France in collaboration with international partners from the US and Australia, has found a common genetic factor that confers a significant risk of atypical heart attacks in women.