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Celebrating six decades of research in the Adrian Building and 40 Years of Genetic Fingerprinting – Public Event, October 11th
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/genetics-adrian-richard-iii-dna
To mark the forthcoming closure of the Adrian Building, the former Department of Genetics, Genomics and Cancer Sciences (GGCS) is hosting a public event on Saturday, October 11th, in Lecture Theatre 2 of the Sir Bob Burgess Building, Welford Road.
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Politicians and media fuel hate crime in Britain say experts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/2018politicians-and-media-fuel-hate-crime-in-britain-2019-say-experts
Professor Neil Chakraborti and Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy, from our Centre for Hate Studies, say the ‘toxic climate’ surrounding the EU referendum debate has helped to ‘embolden’ people to target those they regard as ‘different’ or ‘foreign’.
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University response to UCU
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/open-letter-response
The University response to the open letter received from LUCU on 23 July 2020 regarding Addressing Anti-Casualisation and Precarity at the University of Leicester The University recognises the valuable contributions all our staff are making during this very difficult time.
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Milestone reached for BepiColombo space mission
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/milestone-reached-for-bepicolombo-space-mission
Milestone reached for BepiColombo space mission Milestone reached for BepiColombo space mission 1200|Science orbiters stacked together, one carrying space instrument developed at Leicester.
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Leicester space experts drive forward mission to find habitable worlds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/space-experts-mission-find-habitable-worlds
Professor Martin Barstow is leading a consortium developing a UK instrument contribution to the the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO).
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ITV drama set at the University to air over Easter
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/itv-drama-set-at-the-university-to-air-over-easter
The first episode of the two-part ITV fictional drama based on the discovery of DNA fingerprinting at the University of Leicester and its first use in a murder enquiry will air over the Easter bank holiday weekend.
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Gigantic Jurassic pterosaur fossil unearthed in Oxfordshire
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/gigantic-pterosaur
University of Leicester researcher involved in study of one of the largest pterosaurs of the Jurassic era
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National conference to focus on menopause policy in the workplace
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/national-conference-to-focus-on-menopause-policy-in-the-workplace
Experts from our University are to showcase menopause policies in the workplace at a national conference. The University of Leicester is the first University in the UK with a workplace menopause policy.
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Past PhD projects
https://le.ac.uk/medieval/study/research-degrees/past-phd-projects
Browse the list of past medieval PhD projects undertaken at the University of Leicester. Thesis topics range across the whole of the Middle Ages and also across the full range of disciplines represented within the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.
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New strategic partnership to explore four-dimensional first order controls on nickel mineral systems
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/bhp-ev-metals
The project and partnership with BHP has developed directly from recent work by the Leicester-UWA group that has shed new light on the processes involved in the sources and transport mechanisms of metals through the lithosphere in magmatic systems, published in Nature...