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• Departmental prizes

  https://le.ac.uk/english/study/departmental-prizes

  English offers the following undergraduate and postgraduate prizes after our Boards of Examiners at the end of each academic year. G. S. Fraser Prize Winner of a poetry competition adjudicated by staff in English.

• Economic inequality is not “bad for everyone”, new research shows – wealthier people derive happiness benefits

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/economic-inequality-wealth-people-happiness

  Increases in economic inequality raise the life satisfaction of wealthier people, while lowering the life satisfaction of people who earn less, newly published research shows.

• 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.

• Research shows national parliaments in the UK and the Netherlands host highest number of MPs of immigrant origin

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/research-shows-national-parliaments-in-the-uk-and-the-netherlands-host-highest-number-of-mps-of-immigrant-origin

  Key research findings about the political representation of citizens of immigrant origin (IO) in European national parliaments have been announced at an event in central London on Monday 15 February.

• Meet our staff

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• 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.

• 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 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.

• Rutvica Andrijasevic

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/ra238/

  What the Hong Kong Occupation has Already Achieved Posted by Rutvica Andrijasevic in School of Business Blog on November 10, 2014 Rutvica Andrijasevic, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, overviews some provisional findings from the research she has been doing into...

• Bullying and Discrimination accounts for 37% additional NHS mental health worker sick-leave

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/11/25/bullying-and-discrimination-accounts-for-37-additional-nhs-mental-health-worker-sick-leave/

  Posted by Stephen Wood in School of Business Blog on November 25, 2015 Professor of Management at the School, Stephen Wood , presents some of the findings – and methodology – from the National Survey of Staff Morale amongst Mental Health Staff 2013’s Francis report on the...