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• University of Leicester welcomes Sutton Trust report into medical students from working class backgrounds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/university-leicester-sutton-trust-working-class-medical-students

  The University of Leicester has welcomed a report which has highlighted the dearth of medical students from working class backgrounds in the UK.

• The Country House: Management, Preservation, Education

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ha7106

  Module code: HA7106   English Country Houses are some of the most remarkable historical structures in existence. Many great houses in this country survive together with contents which have been assembled over centuries. They have enormous educational potential.

• University of Leicester experts appointed to prestigious panel on harassment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/10-vc-appointment

  The University of Leicester’s incoming Vice-Chancellor Professor Nishan Canagarajah and leading expert on hate crime Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy will sit on an elite board to tackle racial harassment in higher education.

• Female genital mutilation seeking alternative rites of passage

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/female-genital-mutilation-seeking-2018alternative-rites-of-passage2019

  The potential of a method of replacing female genital mutilation as an initiation into womanhood with culturally sensitive alternatives is to be explored.

• University of Leicester alumnus amongst ten Windrush pioneers to have portrait commissioned by the King

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/windrush-geoff

  Sir Godfrey ‘Geoff’ Palmer OBE is one of ten pioneering members of the Windrush Generation who have had portraits commissioned by King Charles III to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush.

• Mr Duncan Cloud (1930-2020)

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/duncan-cloud

  The University community was saddened to learn of the loss, on 24 June 2020, of one of its most senior members and a major figure in its history. John Duncan Cloud (MA Oxford, B.Litt.

• Carceral Archipelago: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Deprivation is ‘driving’ Covid-19 ethnic disparities, claims new analysis

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/deprivation-driving-covid-19-ethnic-disparities

  Deprivation is ‘driving’ Covid-19 disparities among minority ethnic groups and could be considered the main cause of disproportionate infection rates, hospitalisation and deaths.

• Ken Weir

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/khw11/

  Censoring Academics works well for Publishers Posted by Ken Weir in School of Business Blog on June 18, 2014 Kenneth Weir, Lecturer in Accountancy at the School, examines the popularity of a controversial article which he, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley,...

• Critical Approaches to Data Analytics and the Digital Economy

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ms7087

  Module code: MS7087 This module gives you a critical understanding of the implications that new technologies and platforms have on social, economic and political life.