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• Lecture to explore the emerging blood test helping to spot cancer earlier

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/lecture-to-explore-the-emerging-blood-test-helping-to-spot-cancer-earlier

  Research into a blood test that may spot cancers sooner and allow more targeted treatment is to be presented by researcher at our University. Professor Jacqui Shaw (pictured) from our Department of Cancer Studies will give the Frank May Prize Lecture 2017 on 26 June at 5.

• Protest camps explored in new book co-edited by Leicester academics

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/protest-camps-explored-in-new-book-co-edited-by-leicester-academics

  A new book on protest camps and political activism, edited by two Leicester academics, will be published on Wednesday 29 March.

• Tackling religiously motivated hate affecting university students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/tackling-religiously-motivated-hate-affecting-university-students

  Initiatives designed to tackle the rise of hate and extremism in the UK and beyond have received a vital boost from the Office for Students (OfS).

• Dialect in Diaspora: People and Places (PhD)

  https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/projects/people-and-places

  Supervisor: Dr Jayne Carroll PhD Student: Eleanor Rye This project was carried out at The Institute for Name-Studies at the University of Nottingham as part of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain programme.

• 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.

• 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.

• Meet our staff

  https://le.ac.uk/jo-williams-clinic/people

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• COVID-19 up to twice as likely to infect people of Black and Asian ethnicity

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/covid19-ethnicity

  According to researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, COVID-19 up to twice as likely to infect people of Black and Asian ethnicity

• Military and conflicts

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/collections/military-and-conflicts

  Learn more about the collections about military and conflicts in the East Midlands Oral History Archive.