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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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Peopling Australia
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2317
Module code:HS2317 Module Outline In 2001, the Aboriginal Australian sprinter, Cathy Freeman, was awarded the title of World Sportswoman of the Year after becoming Olympic 400m champion at the Sydney Games.
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Global Environmental Change
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy3355
Module code: GY3355 Module outline Global changes in the physical geography of the planet are leading to increasingly visible environmental, economic and social effects.
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The Biosphere in the Earth System
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy3354
Module code: GY3354 Module outline This module will provide students with an advanced-level understanding of contemporary biosphere processes, with an emphasis on the carbon cycle.
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Pharmacology and medicines prescribing applied to midwifery practice
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mw3012
Module code: MW3012 This module is facilitated by a combination of specialist subject lectures, small group tutorials, interactive computer-based activities, practical demonstration and simulation (medicinal products administration), problem-based case scenarios, practice...
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Pharmacology and medicines prescribing applied to midwifery practice
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mw3012
Module code: MW3012 This module is facilitated by a combination of specialist subject lectures, small group tutorials, interactive computer-based activities, practical demonstration and simulation (medicinal products administration), problem-based case scenarios, practice...
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Motor Cities
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/motor-cities
Leverhulme Research Project Grant (£154,757) October 2011-September 2014 Professor Simon Gunn and Dr Susan Townsend (University of Nottingham) In the last half century the automobile has transformed life in cities across much of the globe, offering unprecedented freedom...
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To celebrate Year of the Rooster University research explores intriguing tales of chickens
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/to-celebrate-year-of-the-rooster-university-research-explores-intriguing-tales-of-chickens
To celebrate the Chinese Year of the Rooster, a research team involving our University has shed light on the fascinating role chickens have played in the development of our planet - by taking audiences on the Chicken Trail.
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Victorian games and 19th century school life showcased at new exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/victorian-games-and-19th-century-school-life-showcased-at-new-exhibition
A new exhibition exploring the lives of Victorian schoolchildren – including the games that they played and their classroom experiences – is on display at our University in the Library's Special Collections until 7 July.
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Leicester remembers honorary graduate Tim Pigott-Smith
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-remembers-honorary-graduate-tim-pigott-smith
The University was saddened to learn on 7 April of the death of Tim Pigott-Smith, noted actor and and honorary graduate of the University of Leicester.