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The politics of comparison: writing a global history of punishment
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/02/05/the-politics-of-comparison-writing-a-global-history-of-punishment/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on February 5, 2015 The Carceral Archipelago project faces enormous challenges in writing the history of punishment as global history.
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Ukrainian History Unearthed in East Midlands Oral History Archive’s Polish Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/09/03/ukrainian-history-unearthed-in-east-midlands-oral-history-archives-polish-collection/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on September 3, 2025 By Iona Kerstin Volynets September 05, 2025 Content warning: This article includes mentions of massacres, war, labour camps, death, and illness.
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Surnames and the Y chromosome
https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/projects/surnames-and-the-y-chromosome
Research Fellow: Dr Turi King - Project Manager of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain and lead researcher on the Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in the North of England project In Britain, we have heritable surnames.
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Distance Learning (DL) Sanctuary Awards
https://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/fees-funding/scholarships-discounts/dl-sanctuary
What are the DL Sanctuary Awards? We recognise that forced displacement creates significant barriers to accessing higher education.
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Representations of Jamaican Organised Crime
https://le.ac.uk/dons-yardies-posses/events/workshop-1
Get more information on the Representations of Jamaican Organised Crime workshop, held for the Dons, Yardies and Posses: Representations of Jamaican Organised Crime' project.
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14-16 June 2017 event
https://le.ac.uk/crime-representation-anglophone-caribbean/events/june-14-16-2017
Learn more about the workshops held on 14-16 June focusing on the following themes: security and insecurity; organised crime and gangs; crime, gender and sexuality.
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Ground-breaking research celebrates 10 years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/exceed-celebration
Some of the 11,000 people who’ve taken part in the ground-breaking Leicester research study, EXCEED, gathered at the University of Leicester’s Sir Bob Burgess building last week to celebrate 10 years of the study
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Major funding for Leicester will help find new cancer treatments
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/cancer-research-funding
The search for new cancer treatments in Leicester is to receive a major funding investment of up to £2 million, providing future hope for people diagnosed with the disease.
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Final stage reached for space missions powered by University of Leicester expertise
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/space-missions
Two space missions that involve the University of Leicester are in the final stages of the selection process that will see one successful mission taken forward by the European Space Agency for launch.
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Surnames and the Y chromosome
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-impact-of-diasporas-on-the-making-of-britain/the-diasporas-projects/surnames-and-the-y-chromosome
Dr Turi E King, Research Fellow and Project Manager of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain. Lead researcher on 'The Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in the North of England' project. Research Fellow: Dr Turi King In Britain, we have heritable surnames.