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English and British Culture Programme - Spring 2026
https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/short-courses/ebcp-spring
Study on the 4-week English and British Culture Programme at the University of Leicester.
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20 years of the National Minimum Wage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/08/20-years-of-the-national-minimum-wage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2019 20 years of the National Minimum Wage – what has been the impact? On 1 April 1999 the National Minimum Wage (NMW) was introduced in the UK – a £3.
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Delivering Sexual Harassment
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/01/18/delivering-sexual-harassment/
Posted by Jo B in School of Business Blog on January 18, 2018 In our first blog of the new year, Professor Jo Brewis explores the ways in which the gig economy is providing an insidious new means for women to be exposed to sexual harassment.
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Convicts, Collecting and Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Century
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/27/convicts-collecting-and-knowledge-production-in-the-nineteenth-century/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 27, 2015 In previous blogs, I have explored some of the circulations and connections that linked nations, colonies and empires, and wove together practices of punishment and penal labour across polities and imperial spaces.
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School Administrators: Getting to Know Who We Are
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2023/10/30/school-administrators-getting-to-know-who-we-are/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on October 30, 2023 Laura Nevay School Administrator, School of Criminology and Sociology Carla Starmer School Administrator, School of Media and Communication When was the last time you...
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Life Cycles
https://le.ac.uk/botanic-garden/education/primary/life-cycles
Learn more about the Life Cycles programme that we offer to primary school children.
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Arch Street Prison: A Prison without Convicts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/09/10/arch-street-prison-a-prison-without-convicts/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on September 10, 2015 By Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan.
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Air quality can be better for active commuters than drivers, research shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/commute-air-quality
Their findings show that NO2 concentrations can be higher in car cabins (even electric car cabins) than alongside the road where people are walking and cycling. Some PM2.5 can be removed, for example by pollen filters, meaning PM2.
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Inspirational women at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/leicester2019s-inspirational-women
The Tab's Future 100, a definitive list of women at UK universities who are set to achieve incredible things in the future, includes seven fantastic women from our University. The recently launched 2018 edition, in partnership with J.P.
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Hot hot hot, above the Great Red Spot
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/07/28/hot-hot-hot-above-the-great-red-spot/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on July 28, 2016 One of the largest remaining questions in understanding the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, the outmost layer of the atmosphere, is: ‘Why is this region so very hot?’.