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• Alberto Fernández Carbajal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/author/afc9/

  Alberto is a Leverhulme Fellow at School of English, University of Leicester, where he previously was Teaching Fellow in Postcolonial Literature.

• ‘You want Pay-Rise with that?’ Strike Action, Fast-Food Style

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/11/19/you-want-pay-rise-with-that-strike-action-fast-food-style/

  Posted by Paul Brook in School of Business Blog on November 19, 2014 In the age of much austerity and few alternatives, Paul Brook , Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Work and Employment at the School, makes a renewed claim for a politics of labour mobilisation   Not...

• Ancient climate change solves mystery of vanished South African lakes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/south-africa-lakes

  Arid regions of South Africa were once home to lakes, a University of Leicester-led study has confirmed. Scientists have used modelling to determine the climate and ecology at the time.

• AboutUs

  https://le.ac.uk/top-links-about-us

  Leicester probably started as a Celtic settlement. It was the capital of the local Celtic tribe, the Coriletavi. The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and they captured Leicestershire by 47 AD. The Romans built a fort at Leicester in 48 AD.

• MBRRACE-UK collaboration sets out key recommendations for reducing inequities and improving care for babies born to Asian and Black mothers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/baby-care

  The MBRRACE-UK collaboration, co-led by The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS) group at the University of Leicester has published the results of a confidential enquiry into the care of Black and Asian babies born in the UK in 2019.

• The formula for success in 100 years of Chemistry at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/formula-success-100-years-chemistry-centenary

  As the School of Chemistry celebrates 100 years of Chemistry at Leicester, find out more about its history and achievements

• History of Prisons in Guyana

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/history-of-prisons-in-guyana

  History of prisons in Guyana including details of a virtual reality tour.

• Shedding light on historical stories of displacement and forced migration

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/shedding-light-on-historical-stories-of-displacement-and-forced-migration

  During Leicester’s 2018 Journeys Festival international, where the creative talents of exceptional refugee and asylum seeker artists are celebrated, the University of Leicester’s DICE unit is hosting an event entitled ‘Reckoning with Refugeedom.

• Leicester pays tribute to scientist and humanitarian Sir Geoff Palmer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/leicester-tribute-scientist-humanitarian-sir-geoff-palmer

  The University of Leicester has paid tribute to one of the institution’s most respected graduates: renowned scientist and humanitarian Professor Emeritus Sir Geoff Palmer KT OBE.

• National PPI Group

  https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/about/heart-surgery/national-ppi-group

  National PPI group is made up of patients/carers who have an interest in helping our researchers develop future heart surgery trials