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New world plants in Italy, from observation to assimilation (1500-1850)
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/new-world-plants-in-italy
Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (£112,364) October 2007 - September 2010 Dr David Gentilcore Prior to the research project, there had been little systematic study of the impact that plants from the New World had on early modern and modern Italy.
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Are children in the UK exposed to online pornography?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/are-children-in-the-uk-exposed-to-online-pornography/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 And if so, what impact does it have on their lives and relationships? The NSPCC and the Children’s Commissioner asked Middlesex University to conduct a study.
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Landmark genetic study sheds new light on how the eye develops its sharpest vision
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/eye-genetic-study-foveal-leicester
Combining artificial intelligence and genetics has allowed researchers in Leicester to study the part of the eye that gives us sharp central vision in amazing detail for the first time
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DNA, genes and chromosomes for higher education
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/dna/dna-higher-education
Information on genetics for higher education students, including links to relevant resources to help with research.
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Contemporary Hollywood
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/ha3432
Module code: HA3432 This module will focus on contemporary, popular film. The module will offer an outline of industrial shifts and key movements in recent, mainstream cinema.
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You are what you Wear? Clothing, Fashion and Belonging in the Modern World
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/hs3681
Module code: HS3681 Clothing and fashion contains many indicators of class, gender and even politics. You’ll be looking at a wide range of case studies from Great Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Palestine/Israel in a transnational context.
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Contemporary Hollywood
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ha3432
Module code: HA3432 This module will focus on contemporary, popular film. The module will offer an outline of industrial shifts and key movements in recent, mainstream cinema.
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You are what you Wear? Clothing, Fashion and Belonging in the Modern World
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs3681
Module code: HS3681 Clothing and fashion contains many indicators of class, gender and even politics. You’ll be looking at a wide range of case studies from Great Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Palestine/Israel in a transnational context.
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You are what you Wear? Clothing, Fashion and Belonging in the Modern World
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs3681
Module code: HS3681 Clothing and fashion contains many indicators of class, gender and even politics. You’ll be looking at a wide range of case studies from Great Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Palestine/Israel in a transnational context.
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Contemporary Hollywood
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ha3432
Module code: HA3432 This module will focus on contemporary, popular film. The module will offer an outline of industrial shifts and key movements in recent, mainstream cinema.