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New report demonstrates impact of programme preparing refugees for academic life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/report-impact-programme-preparing-refugees-academic-life
The RefugEAP Programme supports refugee-background students aspiring to university in developing their English for academic settings using a trauma-informed approach, run as a unique joint collaboration between the University of Leicester and the University of Leeds
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Leicester’s Juno Magnetospheric and Auroral Science
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/07/06/leicesters-juno-magnetospheric-and-auroral-science/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on July 6, 2016 While much of Stan Cowley’s early scientific career concerned theoretical and data analysis studies of the Earth’s outer plasma environment, involvement in work on the gas giant...
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Physics and Astronomy October-November 2021 Digest
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/12/01/physics-and-astronomy-october-november-2021-digest/
Physics and Astronomy October-November 2021 Digest
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Art and science seen in a new light at evening lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/art-and-science-seen-in-a-new-light-at-evening-lecture
A former artist in residence is returning to the campus this week to present a talk ‘The Library of Light’ as part of a lecture series celebrating the International Year of Light 2015.
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In my prison notebook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/08/29/in-my-prison-notebook/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on August 29, 2016 Last year I came across a rare archival find: multiple editions of a 19th century prison newspaper covertly produced by Russian inmates between 1890 and 1905.
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Scaling Out: Thinking About Sustainability, Food and Fashion
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/11/11/scaling-out-thinking-about-sustainability-food-and-fashion/
Posted by Jennifer Smith Maguire in School of Business Blog on November 11, 2015 Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, Jennifer Smith Maguire , considers the outgrowths of a recent School based workshop Several years ago I bought a schizostylis...
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Peniche Fado
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/11/10/peniche-fado/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on November 10, 2014 During a recent trip to Portugal I took the chance to visit the fortress of Peniche, situated on the rocky coast in the homonymous village, approximately one hundred kilometres north of Lisbon.
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Forced Labour and Shifting Borders
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/01/10/forced-labour-and-shifting-borders-2/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on January 10, 2016 Some may argue (for good reason) that the collapse of space and time is a commonplace condition of twenty-first century life.
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Medical student takes part in The One Show’s Rickshaw Challenge
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/26-medical-student-takes-part-in-rickshaw-challenge
Phoebe Avbulimen with Matt Baker doing the rickshaw challenge 1900|University of Leicester medical student Phoebe Avbulimen completes the Rickshaw Challenge for Children in Need On Friday 16 November 2018, University of Leicester medical student Phoebe Avbulimen,...
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Drugs legislation requires review, says academic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/drugs-misuse-scarman-lecture
The main piece of legislation used to combat illegal drug use in the UK is no longer fit for purpose, according to a leading criminologist at the University of Leicester.