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Local meeting of the minds leads to creative triumph
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/local-meeting-of-the-minds-leads-to-creative-triumph
Following the successful Journeys in Translation event hosted by the University's Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies (LeCTIS) last year, a group of translating students at our University have worked closely with local poet Pam Thompson to provide their...
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Ground-breaking view of the cosmos revealed at Space Park Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/07/13/ground-breaking-view-of-the-cosmos-revealed-at-space-park-leicester/
Astounding images telling the story of a hidden universe through every phase of its cosmic history have been revealed for the first time at Space Park Leicester.
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Black Lives Matter
https://le.ac.uk/american-studies/about/black-lives-matter
Academics in the Centre for American Studies have put together a list of resources for anyone interested in learning more about the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Past research topics
https://le.ac.uk/law/study/research-degrees/past-research
Browse a list of former Leicester Law School PhD students and find out more about the research they undertook whilst at the School.
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Leicester criminologists working with Government to explore motivations behind acid attacks
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-criminologists-working-with-government-to-explore-motivations-behind-acid-attacks
Researchers from our Department of Criminology have launched a major research project, commissioned by the Home Office, into the motivations of offenders who carry and use acid in violent attacks.
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Indigeneity and Carcerality: Thinking about reserves, prisons, and settler colonialism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/10/27/indigeneity-and-carcerality-thinking-about-reserves-prisons-and-settler-colonialism/
Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on October 27, 2016 In 1871, a group of men – hereditary chiefs of the Six Nations of the Grand River – met with anthropologist Horatio Hale in the town of Brantford, Ontario.
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Expert opinions cover Syria Pokmon Go The GBBO wildfires and religious symbols
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/expert-opinions-cover-syria-pokemon-go-the-gbbo-wildfires-and-religious-symbols
PhD student Seyda Eruyar from the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour has written an article for Think: Leicester discussing her journey to study at Leicester and the opportunities provided by our University.
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Leicester historian takes Hairy Bikers through Yorkshires past pubs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/leicester-historian-takes-hairy-bikers-through-yorkshire2019s-past-pubs
A new BBC series following the popular Hairy Bikers on a tour of historic British pubs features a historian from our University in its opening episode, discussing the pubs of Yorkshire’s past.
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New Years Honours University links
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-years-honours-university-links
Members of our University have again been recognised in The Queen’s New Year’s Honours. Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, who discovered genetic fingerprinting at this University, has been has been appointed as a Companion of Honour (CH).
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School of History, Politics and International Relations
https://le.ac.uk/hypir
The School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester houses the subject areas of History, Politics and International Relations and American Studies and is also home to world-leading research clusters and centres.