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@LeicsIAS @AttenboroughAC and @hellosabsab are pleased to announce the publication of our Culture Talks article: scienceopen.com/hosted-docum…
We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest Working Paper Series, Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025): Gender, Violence and Conflict: University of the West Indies and University of Leicester International Summer School, 27–31 May 2024 | LIAS Working Paper Series
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Calling all University of Leicester early career and postgraduate researchers to our event on 19 September to mark @UK_NPAW ! Network and bid for £2,500 to launch a research culture project.
19 September, 09:30-16:30, SBB 1.02
Register: tinyurl.com/research-culture…
ALT Research culture catalyst day: A chance for all PGR/ECRs to network, talk about research culture, and bid for £2500 in our dragons' den. Friday 19 September 2025 9:30-16:30, SBB 1.02
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NEXT WEEK: Research Culture Takeover Week 2025
We’re excited to host an online roundtable with our friends in the @LeicsIAS
🌍"Research Culture in Global Perspective"
🗓️ 3 June 2025, 14:00-15:00, MS Teams
🔗 Sign up now! tinyurl.com/ireacch
ALT Research Culture in Global Perspective. Online roundtable discussion featuring Alumni Fellows of the Leicester Institute of Advanced Studies. Tuesday 3 June 2025, 14:00-15:00 Microsoft Teams
Join an unmissable evening @AttenboroughAC Friday 13th June 17:00! Culture Talk: What Art Does, with Abbas Zahedi, Alice Tilche and Isobel Whitelegg
attenborougharts.ticketsolve…
Image: Abbas Zahedi, Holding a Heart, 2023. Courtesy the artist.
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NEWS| Check out this motivating article "Why walking may be the key to a long and healthy life" in @ConversationUK by Professor Tom Yates, co-lead of the Lifestyle theme of the #NIHRLeicesterBRC
Tom writes: "As far back as 400 BC, Hippocrates, widely considered the father of modern medicine, famously said, “Walking is man’s best medicine.” More than two millennia later, science is finally catching up with that wisdom."
Read the full article: theconversation.com/why-walk…
#NationalWalkingMonth @uniofleicester @Leic_hospital @LDC_tweets
Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies retweeted
Research Culture Takeover Week 2025
We’re excited to be hosting an online roundtable with our friends in the @LeicsIAS
🌍 ‘Research Culture in Global Perspective’
🗓️ 3 June
⏰14:00-15:00 BST
📍 MS Teams
🔗 Sign up now! tinyurl.com/ireacch
Excited to be part of a new interdisciplinary walking project in collaboration with @DurhamIAS @LeicesterCSSAH
Great to be part of the @doctoralcollege Annual Research Conference and celebrate one year of @I_REACCH !
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📆Upcoming Workshops📆: Help shape the future of research culture at Leicester
Book your place tinyurl.com/mr2edkcf
•🌟Breaking down barriers (26 March, 2 April)
•📝Research culture manifestos (8 April)
We offer £10 vouchers valid at any of the campus food outlets
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It's a full house for @LeicsIAS Ten Days that Changed the World! Ten @uniofleicester lecturers from different subject areas will pitch for the day they think changed the world. The audience will decide the winner!
#LitLeics25
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Can you think of a world-changing day?🤔
On 21 March @LeicsIAS hosts '10 Days that Changed the World'. 10 lecturers will make their pitches - it's down to the audience to judge the winner!
Be part of the conversation👇
tickettailor.com/events/lite…
#LitLeics25
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Looking forward to a full day of @DurhamIAS and @LeicsIAS joint event on walking
A fantastic day hosted by @DurhamIAS collaborating with researchers across @uniofleicester and @durham_uni 'through the walking lens'
Join an unmissable evening of 'Culture Talks' @AttenboroughAC with artist Sabrina Tirvengadum, Professor Clare Anderson, and Dr Esme Cleall as they discuss the Gallery 2 exhibition 'Who Were They? Who Am I?'
Tuesday 11 March, 2025 6:30pm - 7:30pm
attenborougharts.com/whats-o…
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A good research culture breaks down silos
How can we work together to create a more inclusive research culture for everyone?
Share your thoughts 📢 📢 📢
The Research Culture Survey is open now!
👉 Survey link (open for UoL staff & PGRs only):
survey.alchemer.eu/s3/907976…
ALT Multiple people holding hammers to build together.
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Now published: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Well done to our research group #deliberatedyinggroup @LeicsIAS
Our co-authored paper "Planning for end of life in the past and present: Historical, legal, and clinical perspectives on ReSPECT" has been accepted by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine @EditorJRSM
led by the awesome @J_vanOppen of our Deliberate Dying research group!
Book your place! Wed 8 Jan 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Transgender Prisoners Book Launch University of Leicester School of Business, Brookfield @UniLeicBusiness tickettailor.com/events/univ…
We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest Working Paper Series. Vol. 11 No. 1 (2024): Papers from the University of West Indies–University of Leicester International Summer School | LIAS Working Paper Series
Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies retweeted
👥 #ITD2024: Journeys in Translation Readings & Conversation
⚓️with translators, Donald Adamson (Scots language), Christophe Gagne (French), Zsófia Hacsek (Hungarian) & Sahar Othmani (Arabic)
🗓️ Online: 30/09/2024; 6.00pm BST
🎟️Registration: forms.gle/MYhQGZxuJb3p7x5XA
