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Academic and visiting staff
https://le.ac.uk/translation-interpreting-studies/people/academic-and-visiting-staff
Browse the academic staff and visiting scholars who work and research within the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies, and see their research interests and contact details.
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Archaeology of Islamic Societies
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar3088
Module code: AR3088 Who are the Muslims and what is their history? Is there an ‘Islamic’ culture, or indeed more than one? What is the place of the history of Islam in everybody’s history? How can archaeologists study Islamic societies? Islam originated in...
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South American Narratives of Dictatorship and Exile
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sp2071
Module code: SP2071 This module introduces and explores the social and political shifts that led to the establishment of dictatorships in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay in the 1970s and 80s, and examines the impact of these events at both individual and social levels through...
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Spanish Literature and Film
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sp1041
Module code: SP1041 This module will introduce you to the study of film and narrative fiction from Spain.
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Spanish Literature and Film
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/sp1041
Module code: SP1041 This module will introduce you to the study of film and narrative fiction from Spain.
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Lecturer on FT podcast discusses Galileo Brexit and space policy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/lecturer-on-ft-podcast-discusses-galileo-brexit-and-space-policy
Dr Bleddyn Bowen from HyPIR has featured as the guest on the Financial Times’ latest episode of their fortnightly podcast Brexit Unspun to discuss the recent events in space policy and Brexit negotiations, in light of Bleddyn’s singular expertise on the political and security...
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School of Business shaping initiatives to boost local enterprise
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/school-of-business-to-help-shape-local-initiatives
Businesses across the East Midlands are being asked to identify and rank their greatest concerns for the coming 12 months. The question is being posed in the first East Midlands Chamber Quarterly Economic Survey of 2018, in partnership with the School of Business.
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History and Security Sector Reform: Crime and Punishment in British Colonial Guyana, 1814-1966
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/history-and-security-sector-reform
Over the past two years there has been a general shift in models of incarceration in the former British colony of Guyana, from punishment (punitive measures) to correction and rehabilitation (via training and education).
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Researchers shed light on why and how Stonehenge was built
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/researchers-shed-light-on-why-and-how-stonehenge-was-built
Excavation of two quarries in Wales by a team of archaeologists and geologists - including Dr Rob Ixer, a researcher with the Department of Geology - has confirmed they are sources of Stonehenge’s ‘bluestones’, shedding light on how they were quarried...
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Student becomes youngest to graduate from Harvard
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/student-becomes-youngest-to-graduate-from-harvard
Eugenie de Silva (pictured), who started reading for her PhD at Leicester aged 15, has become the youngest person to graduate from Harvard University.