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• New guidance for filmmakers on how to represent people with disabilities 

  Date: 13 Jun 2023

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  A recent PhD from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ has called on the film industry to better represent people with disabilities on the big screen.

• Engaging the digital generation in democracy: new insights presented by Leicester experts

  Date: 7 Nov 2022

  /news/2022/november/digigen-conference

  Research by Â鶹ÊÓƵ explores how a digitally-literate younger generation becomes involved in politics through digital technology.

• Read all about it! Journalism students to work side-by-side with Leicester reporters

  Date: 26 May 2022

  /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...

• Leicester student teams up with influencer to host charity football match for Help the Homeless

  Date: 22 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/charity-football-match

  A charity football match between two local gyms was played in the name of charity at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Roger Bettles Sports Centre...

• First Cowrie Scholar excited to shine ‘positive light’

  Date: 11 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/cowrie

  The first recipient of a Cowrie Foundation Scholarship at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ designed to provide opportunities for talented Black British...

• Local democracy in peril, warns Leicester academic

  Date: 22 Jan 2021

  /news/2021/january/local-democracy

  The threat to local democracy in the UK is the subject of a video interview with a Â鶹ÊÓƵ academic on a top UK politics website.

• Declining local paper sales are a danger to democracy

  Date: 9 Oct 2020

  /news/2020/october/local-papers

  Action needs to be taken to prevent a crisis for local democracy as a result of the dramatic decline in local press readership, a Leicester...

• Digital life during the lockdown

  Date: 14 May 2020

  /news/2020/may/digital-apps

  Virtual social apps are helping us make do as best we can in lonely, desperate times.

• Professor Henrietta O'Connor appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of College

  Date: 15 Mar 2019

  /news/2019/march/15-henrietta-o-connor-new-pro-vc-head-of-college

  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ is delighted to announce that Professor Henrietta O'Connor has been appointed to the role leading the College of...

• Creating safe spaces in the entertainment industry

  Date: 22 Feb 2019

  /news/2019/february/22-safe-spaces-entertainment-equity

  Â鶹ÊÓƵ essay explores Equity’s Agenda for Change Ahead of this weekend’s Oscars ceremony, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Research...