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• 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.

• World leaders announced in support for HeForShe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/world-leaders-announced-in-support-for-heforshe

  World leaders and new universities and companies have now been announced – alongside the University of Leicester – for the UN’s HeForShe campaign.

• £1.2 million funding to investigate mental health legacy of colonialism in Guyana’s jails

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/15-mental-health-legacy-of-colonialism-in-guyanas-jails

  Funding for University of Leicester project announced under the ESRC-AHRC GCRF Mental Health 2017 Call

• Research suggests people with forms of earlyonset Parkinsons disease may benefit from boosting niacin in diet

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/research-suggests-people-with-forms-of-early-onset-parkinson2019s-disease-may-benefit-from-boosting-niacin-in-diet

  People with certain forms of early-onset Parkinson’s disease may benefit from boosting the amount of niacin in their diet, according to new research from our University. Niacin, or Vitamin B3, is found in a variety of foods, including nuts and meat.

• Expert opinions cover Brexit Michael Gove Victorian dismemberment football and US nuclear command

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-opinions-cover-brexit-michael-gove-and-victorian-dismemberment

  Professor Panicos Demetriades from the Department of Economics has written an article for Think: Leicester giving his initial reaction to the Brexit vote.

• Factors influencing antimicrobial resistance in residential care homes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2019/06/17/factors-influencing-antimicrobial-resistance-in-residential-care-homes/

  Posted by ekrockow in SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied to Healthcare Improvement REsearch) on June 17, 2019 A brief literature review by Christine Amedor   I am Christine, a third-year Medical Physiology undergraduate at the University of Leicester who recently worked...

• The Cinematic Spectacle that Class War has become

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/03/18/the-cinematic-spectacle-that-class-war-has-become/

  Posted by Chris Land in School of Business Blog on March 18, 2015 Our recently appointed Reader in Work and Organisation, Christopher Land , takes it upon himself to dethrone the anti-working class morals symptomatic within films such as, though by no means limited to,...

• University of Leicester alumnus releases hit film documentary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/delhi-wedding

  He continued: “The University of Leicester provided me the foundations to so many skills I possess today, and taught me so much even beyond the legal sphere which I studied within.

• New drugs to prevent tuberculosis could be developed thanks to this novel cell wall breakthrough

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/3-cell-wall-breakthrough

  Hero tuberculosis Mycobacterium tuberculosisis|Research has identified a novel regulatory mechanism, which when deactivated, results in the death of the life-threatening pathogen.

• Turkey

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  We welcome students from Turkey. Find out about entry requirements, the Turkish student community and other country-specific information.