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• BLOG: what’s the wider story behind Leicester’s migration history?

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/migration

  Fifty years ago Leicester welcomed up to 28,000 South Asian UK passport holders from Uganda.

• 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.

• 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.

• Outreach

  https://le.ac.uk/english/outreach

  Staff in English at the University of Leicester are committed to presenting their work outside Higher Education, and to discussing research ideas beyond the university. Find out about our talks, events, public readings, local education projects and more.

• 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.

• Legacy stories

  https://le.ac.uk/giving/legacy-gifts/legacy-stories

  The impact of legacy gifts extends far beyond financial contributions. With each generous bequest, lives are transformed. Through scholarships, students are empowered to pursue their academic dreams unhindered by financial constraints.

• 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.

• Articles and features

  https://le.ac.uk/modern-languages/research/luigi-ghirri/blogs-and-resources/articles-and-features

  Written blog posts and visual materials as resources drawn from an interdisciplinary research network studying and exploring Luigi Ghirri's work and legacy in photographic art.