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• 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024

  Obituaries for members of the University community who have died in 2024.

• Syeda Rahat

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/syeda-rahat

  We have learned, with great sadness, of the passing of Atiya Rahat (known as Syeda), a postgraduate research student in the School of Business.

• New online resource for local historians

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/new-online-resource-for-local-historians

  A new website makes available all the PhD theses completed by students at the Centre for English Local History. The collection comprises 100 theses covering subjects from medieval moats to hunting in Northamptonshire.

• Innovative clinical trials research programme showcased to public

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/innovative-clinical-trials-research-programme-showcased-to-public

  The University and Leicester’s Hospitals will showcase their innovative clinical research programme to the public between Monday 15 May and Friday 19 May.

• Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning celebrates successful part-time students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/vaughan-centre-for-lifelong-learning-celebrates-successful-part-time-students

  Part-time students at the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning were congratulated on their commitment and dedication at an award ceremony on 5 March at The Fraser Noble Building, University of Leicester.

• Historians pay tribute following death of Holocaust survivor

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/historians-pay-tribute-following-death-of-holocaust-survivor

  The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies has joined in the world-wide expressions of regret on the death of Elie Wiesel.

• What is saffron

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/what-is-saffron

  Did you know that you need to collect about 200,000 flowers to produce just one kilo of saffron? The labour needed to produce it is just one of the many reasons that make the spice the world's most expensive agricultural product.

• Research to explore socioeconomic rights and global justice movements

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/research-to-explore-socioeconomic-rights-and-global-justice-movements

  Joe Wills (pictured) from our School of Law is to publish a new book investigating socioeconomic rights and global justice movements on Thursday 30 March.

• Join Jane Austen and zombie experts for pre-Halloween screening and panel

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/11-pp-and-zombies

  Experts on 19th century literature and the undead will come together for a pre-Halloween event at the University of Leicester on 29 October when the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies presents a free screening of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, followed by a discussion...

• River research reveals scale of macroplastic pollution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/river-plastic

  Plastic pollution clogs river systems for considerably longer than previously thought, new research from the University of Leicester shows.