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Rewriting Britain
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3340
Module code: EN3340 (double module) This module will introduce you to the legacies of Modernism and to a selection of new literatures in English.
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Freedom of Expression
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/lw7078
Module code: LW7078 This module provides an introduction to the law which regulates freedom of expression in a contemporary western liberal democracy.
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Freedom of Expression
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/lw7078
Module code: LW7078 This module provides an introduction to the law which regulates freedom of expression in a contemporary western liberal democracy.
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Local democracy in peril, warns Leicester academic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/local-democracy
The threat to local democracy in the UK is the subject of a video interview with a University of Leicester academic on a top UK politics website. Tor Clark, a former newspaper editor and political journalist and now Associate Professor in Journalism, was interviewed by Politics.
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Doctoral loan
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/other-funding/doctoral-loan
If you’re applying for a research degree (PhD) at Leicester, then you may be eligible to apply for the new Government-funded Doctoral Loan.
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Historical directories
https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/historical-directories
a digital collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century trade and local directories for family, local and urban historians
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University supporting literacy skills through reading buddies and new books for schools
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/books
Volunteers from the University of Leicester have donated boxes full of brand-new books to local primary schools. It is part of a wider scheme that sees one hundred school-based volunteers support pupils at Uplands Junior L.E.A.
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Democracy is in Crisis
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/democracy-is-in-crisis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 According to the latest annual report from Freedom House on the state of civil and political liberties worldwide the situation is worsening.
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Projects and reports
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/uliihe/projects-and-reports
Projects and reports for The University of Leicester Institute for Inclusivity in Higher Education (ULIIHE)
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Sensory Reading: New Approaches to Teaching and Learning GCSE English Literature
https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/sensory-reading
Led by Professor Phil Shaw and Dr Scott Freer in the Department of English, ‘Sensory Reading’ aims to develop outreach opportunities arising from Phil Shaw’s AHRC Leadership Fellow project, Wordsworth 2020.