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The University of Leicester (/ ˈ l ɛ s t ər / ⓘ LEST-ər) is a public research university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park . The university's predecessor, University College, Leicester , gained university status in 1957.
Chris Allen, British sociologist and associate professor at the Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester; Penelope Allison, Professor of Archaeology; Lyman Andrews, American Studies; Isobel Armstrong, scholar of nineteenth-century poetry and women's writing; Graeme Barker, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
Paul Joseph Boyle, CBE, FRSE, FBA, FRSGS, FLSW (born 16 November 1964) is a British geographer, academic, and academic administrator.He was the vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester between 2014 and 2019. [2]
Canagarajah was born in 1966 in Sri Lanka. [4] [5] His mother was a teacher. [6]He was educated at St. John's College, Jaffna. [7] After school he joined the University of Cambridge from where he received a BA honours degree in electronics and information sciences in 1989 and a Ph.D. in digital signal processing in 1993.
Lin Foxhall, FSA, MBE, is a Professor of archaeology and ancient Greek History.She has written on women, men, and gender in the classical world. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Leicester, [1] and in 2017 she was appointed to the Rathbone Chair of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.
Suzanne Mary Imber (born May 1983) is a British planetary scientist specialising in space weather at the University of Leicester. [2] She was the winner of the 2017 BBC Two television programme Astronauts, Do You Have What It Takes? .
Young completed undergraduate, MPhIl, and PhD studies at the University of Bradford. She was first appointed at the University of Leicester in 2000. She is a specialist in the archaeology of South Asia and the Middle East. [1] She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 1 January 2010. [2]
His career in medical research began in the late nineties. [5] He established the Leicester Diabetes Centre with Melanie Davies. [6] [7] He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a professor at the University of Leicester in 2017. [8] He is particularly focussed on reducing health inequalities.