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Leicester expert presents esteemed lecture on health determinants among ethnic minority groups
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/kamlesh-award
An international award-winning University of Leicester professor has been selected to deliver a prestigious national lecture in recognition of his research on ethnic minority populations.
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Dr Sarah Gretton named as an Advance HE National Teaching Fellow 2021
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/advancehe-teaching-fellow
Dr Sarah Gretton, Director of the Natural Sciences programme and institutional lead for Education of Sustainable Development (ESD) at the University of Leicester, has been named as one of Advance HE’s National Teaching Fellows 2021.
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University of Leicester receives Freedom of the Borough honour
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/freedom-of-borough
The University of Leicester has been conferred the Freedom of the Borough by Oadby and Wigston Borough Council (OWBC) - the highest civic honour the council can bestow – in the year that the University celebrates its Centenary.
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Read all about it! Journalism students to work side-by-side with Leicester reporters
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leicester-mercury
Leicester’s next generation of journalists will gain first-hand experience of local reporting as a result of a new partnership between the University of Leicester and the UK’s largest news publisher.
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Our Space Heritage: Public event to celebrate Leicester’s long-standing space expertise
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/our-space-heritage
Professor Pounds, who was also guest of honour at the opening of Leicester’s new Space Research Centre earlier this year, said: “Moving to a lectureship in Leicester from the UCL Rocket Group – with a doctoral thesis still incomplete – reflected the pace of change in the...
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Celebrating six decades of research in the Adrian Building and 40 Years of Genetic Fingerprinting – Public Event, October 11th
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/genetics-adrian-richard-iii-dna
To mark the forthcoming closure of the Adrian Building, the former Department of Genetics, Genomics and Cancer Sciences (GGCS) is hosting a public event on Saturday, October 11th, in Lecture Theatre 2 of the Sir Bob Burgess Building, Welford Road.
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My Suffering is my Badge of Honour
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2019/05/21/my-suffering-is-my-badge-of-honour/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on May 21, 2019 Last week I attended the first International Conference on the Mental Health & Wellbeing of Postgraduate Researchers.
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Scoping Failure
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/10/26/scoping-failure/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on October 26, 2018 This week a colleague returned from a conference with some interesting feedback on the conversations she had been involved in around the purpose of a PhD and the views held by various stakeholders.
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Oh, Mr Sloane!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/17/oh-mr-sloane/
Posted by Sarah Graham in School of English Blog on June 17, 2014 After studying Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane, and attending a workshop in the Joe Orton archive, held in the University’s David Wilson Library, third year English student Emma Ingleton was inspired to...
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Specialist or Generalist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2019/02/14/specialist-or-generalist/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on February 14, 2019 Working in a large organisation means the co-ordination of a wide range of ‘moving parts’. This requires a range of roles to enable that co-ordination process.