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• Harem and Hijab: Writing about Women in Islam from the 17th Century to the Present

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3162

  Module code: EN3162 The word harem, derived from the Arabic word haram meaning forbidden or sacrosanct, came to the Western world in the 17th century by means of the Ottoman Empire.

• New Alzheimers Advance

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-alzheimer2019s-advance

  Work done at Leicester has helped to identify a new drug target for not only improving symptoms of brain degeneration – but also to extend the life-span of the terminally ill mice.

• Beehold our hivestar bumble abode

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/bee-hold-our-hive-star-bumble-abode

  Ahead of World Environment Day on Sunday 5 June, students at the University are helping to build replicas of insect natural habitats in two new locations in Leicester.

• Where is the worst place in the UK to be a girl?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/26/where-is-the-worst-place-in-the-uk-to-be-a-girl/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 26, 2016 According to the latest report from Plan UK five indicators were used to rank the 346 local/unitary authorities in England and Wales.

• Different strokes for different folks: Two patient safety tales

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2016/04/27/different-strokes-for-different-folks-two-patient-safety-tales/

  Liz Sutton, qualitative researcher with the SAPPHIRE group, describes the need for a more context driven view of patient safety from a personal perspective.

• Governance policies

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/policies

  The University endeavours to conduct its affairs with integrity and openness and to the highest ethical standards.

• New elite ranking of world universities places Leicester amongst top institutions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/new-elite-ranking-of-world-universities-places-leicester-amongst-top-institutions

  A new ranking of the world’s top 300 elite universities has ranked the University of Leicester among the leading institutions in the world.

• Professor Stephen Wood to present research highlighting the importance of employee involvement

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/stephen-wood-presents-research-highlighting-the-importance-of-employee-involvement

  The School of Management’s Stephen Wood, Professor of Management, will be speaking at a UKWON symposium on Bringing wellbeing, mental health and productivity together in the workplace of the future at E.

• Leicester Citys success was written in a 120 yearold football prophecy

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-city2019s-success-was-written-in-a-100-year-old-football-prophecy

  Leicester City Football Club’s (LCFC) monumental success in the Premier League was prophesised over 120 years ago - by Leicester fans in 1895.

• First study examining pregnancy in the Viking Age: Pregnant women wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers, but also a harsh world where not all newborns were given burial or born free 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/first-study-into-pregnancy-in-viking-age

  A new, interdisciplinary study is the first focused examination of pregnancy in the Viking Age.