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Media and Advertising MA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/media-and-advertising-ma/2025
This is for you if... you want to explore advertising in its complexity and in a global perspective, as a cultural phenomenon that plays a crucial role in contemporary society.
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Cider in Unexpected Places? Rural Chile and the Cider Pressing – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/08/24/cider-in-unexpected-places-rural-chile-and-the-cider-pressing/
Deborah Toner discusses the social and cultural importance of cider making in rural Southern Chile in South America, summarising the work of Anton Daughters that appears in recent book Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History, edited by Gretchen Pierce and...
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Audiovisual Heritage at the University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/10/21/audiovisual-heritage-at-the-university-of-leicester/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 21, 2019 Sunday 27th October 2019 is UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. To join in the celebrations, this blog post looks at some of the Audiovisual Heritage work done at the University of Leicester.
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Eric Henry Janson Teasdale (1896– 1917)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/01/20/eric-henry-janson-teasdale-1896-1917/
21st January 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Lieutenant Eric Henry Janson Teasdale, who at the age of just twenty gave his life during the First World War.
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A chance to talk about gibbeting and hanging in France? Yes, please! By Emma Battell Lowman
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/02/22/parlons-du-gibbet-en-france/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on February 22, 2016 One of the joys of academic work is participating in study days or workshops that bring together a diverse group of scholars to approach a theme or issue from multiple vantage.
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Addressing Liberty: Hayek, Gibraltar and The Road to Serfdom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/02/04/addressing-liberty-hayek-gibraltar-and-the-road-to-serfdom/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on February 4, 2015 Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott , outlines a little known escapade of a largely known economist Friedrich Hayek’s ideas on how economies should...
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Weber, Tolstoj and the Usefulness of Universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/09/04/weber-tolstoj-and-the-usefulness-of-universities/
Posted by Doris Ruth Eikhof in School of Business Blog on September 4, 2014 Doris Ruth Eikhof, Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment at the School, shares some earlier* thoughts on the Research Excellence Framework (REF) In the past two years UK universities have...
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EU students
https://le.ac.uk/study/welcome/your-arrival/identity-check-visa-checkpoint/visa-checkpoint/eu-students
If you’re an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen you can continue to travel to the UK to study on courses of up to 6 months in duration without needing a visa. You can cross the UK border using a valid passport which should be valid for the whole time you are in the UK.
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Life on the home front
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war/life-on-the-home-front
Learn more about life on the home front during the First World War from interviews with residents of Leicestershire during the time.
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Leicester ramps up its wellbeing support for Gen Z students
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/leicester-wellbeing-support-gen-z-students
With almost a quarter of those in the Generation Z age group affected by mental health issues, The University of Leicester has ramped up the wellbeing support it offers its students.