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Visiting Professor awarded the prestigious Presidents Medal from the British Academy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/visiting-professor-awarded-the-prestigious-presidents-medal-from-the-british-academy
A Visiting Professor at our University has been honoured with one of the highest awards for humanities and social sciences.
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Setting standards in stroke treatment
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/stroke-treatment
Improving the treatment of stroke - the fourth leading cause of death and the leading cause of adult disability in the UK.
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Roots of the British
https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/related-research/roots-of-the-british
The Impact of Diasporas programme developed from the Roots of the British project. This project started as a small collaborative group interested in exploring how people from different disciplines could work together to create a more informed picture of the history of Britain.
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Visions of Hell: The Fiction of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3184
Module code: EN3184 Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, major (and popular) twentieth-century novelists, were both Catholic converts. She came from a half-Jewish working-class Edinburgh home, he from the Hampstead literati.
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Gender in the Spanish American Development Novel: Selfhood and Society
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sp3161
Module code: SP3161 This module explores four novels by Spanish American women writers of the Latin American ‘Post-Boom generation’ (1980s onwards), with a particular view to examining the portrayal of gendered identity formation that takes place in their work.
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The Cultural Politics of Heritage
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2801
Module code: HS2801 Module Outline What is heritage? Who defines our heritage? What rights do we have over it? What is the relationship between heritage and public memory? Does the heritage industry produce a commodified version of history and reproduce a neo-liberal...
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System Re-engineering
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/co7206
Module code: CO7206 Software engineers are often hired to maintain and evolve existing systems, rather than develop new ones.
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Study suggests hippocampal neuron responses are associated with memory distinctions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/study-suggests-hippocampal-neuron-responses-are-associated-with-memory-distinctions
The hippocampus is a small region of the brain that forms part of the limbic system and is primarily associated with memory and spatial navigation.
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Expert opinions cover football the Bemba conviction and Obamas visit to Cuba
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/expert-opinions-cover-football-the-bemba-conviction-and-obamas-visit-to-cuba
John Williams from the Department of Sociology has written three opinion pieces recently hosted on Think: Leicester.
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Bear Hunt
https://le.ac.uk/botanic-garden/education/primary/we-are-going-on-a-bear-hunt
Learn more about the We Are Going on a Bear Hunt programme that we offer to primary school children.