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• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 3 9 September

  Date: 4 Sep 2015

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  Dr Maria Rovisco from the Department of Media and Communication has written an article for The Conversation examining the changing tone of media...

• Leicester reaches 15 million readers on The Conversation

  Date: 27 Aug 2015

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  Academics from across the University have collectively captured the imagination of over 1.

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 11 19 August

  Date: 19 Aug 2015

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  Jack Newsinger from the Department of Media and Communication has written an article for The Conversation about labour leader candidate Jeremy...

• Website showcases inspiring examples of inclusive arts

  Date: 17 Aug 2015

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  A new website has been launched containing stories from arts organisations across the East Midlands around art practice with disabled children and...

• Flexible degrees offered by Leicester

  Date: 22 Jul 2015

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  Leicester is pioneering its ‘Pathways’ programme, which it believes will provide the most flexible curriculum in the UK, with students able to...

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 15 22 July

  Date: 22 Jul 2015

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  This week Professor Panos Vostanis from the School of Psychology has written an article for The Conversation discussing how Greece's troubled...

• Researcher suggests mainstream media is responsible for shallow coverage of antirape activism

  Date: 30 Jun 2015

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  Dr Kaitlynn Mendes (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has argued in a new book that the mainstream media often neglects...

• Leicester in new study on social identity

  Date: 24 Jun 2015

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  The University has been selected as the only UK university to be involved in a Europe-wide project studying social identity.

• Lad culture in education promotes misogynistic messages researchers say

  Date: 16 Jun 2015

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  Researchers will be debating the rise of ‘lad culture’ in education and how it promotes a ‘nexus of sexism’ at an upcoming free public event on 22...

• Social media to create earlywarning systems to combat future disasters

  Date: 10 Jun 2015

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  Researchers from the Department of Media and Communication are examining how communities can use social media to improve their resilience to both...