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Professional Research Skills: Finding Your Path in the World of Research
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/bs4602
Module code: BS4602 This module will highlight some of the current issues in academic research and demonstrate how to design academic teaching material.
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Security and Rule of Law in Post-Conflict States
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/cr7582
Module code: CR7582 This module addresses core post-conflict security and justice issues and provides an overview of key stakeholders involved in providing and maintaining security and the rule of law in countries emerging from conflict.
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Insular Manuscripts
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/insular-manuscripts
Leverhulme Trust International Network (2016-2019): IN–2016–029 The Insular Manuscripts project establishes an international research network to advance understanding of knowledge exchange in early medieval Europe through analysis of Insular Manuscripts.
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Archaeology students from University of Leicester unearth very big Roman house in the country
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/roman-villa
Finds from latest excavation in Leicestershire may provide insight into the ‘rural charm’ of Britain to the Romans, while first-year archaeology students developed their excavation skills with Time Team filming for a feature later in the year
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Artistic University porters brush with success
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/university-porters-brush-with-success
University porter Megan McMullan has an amazing artistic talent which is beginning to get her noticed.
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A Cartoon Paints a Thousand Words: An Interview with Yemi
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2021/12/28/a-cartoon-paints-a-thousand-words-an-interview-with-yemi/
Political cartoonist Yemi (Ethiopia) is interviewed by Shout Out UK Young Writer Callum Hill.
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Activities and events
https://le.ac.uk/colonial-countryside/activities-events
Learn what we have done so far within the Colonial Countryside project and what we plan on doing in the future. Get more information on the events we have held and if there are any coming up.
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The impact of diasporas within the UK and across the globe to be examined at conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/the-impact-of-diasporas-within-the-uk-and-across-the-globe-to-be-examined-at-conference
A one-day conference will be held at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 17 September, at which 18 papers will present five years of research projects carried out at Leicester and Oxford focusing on the dispersal of people from their homelands.
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The Story of Pulque Part 2: A Tangle of Origins – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/18/the-story-of-pulque-part-2-a-tangle-of-origins/
Overview of different pre-Columbian narratives about the origins or discovery of pulque, and the various political, historical, and cultural roles these narratives served particularly for the Mexica (Aztecs)
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An Oxford Quarrel: Evelyn Waugh and Hugh Trevor-Roper
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2017/09/19/an-oxford-quarrel-evelyn-waugh-and-hugh-trevor-roper/
Milena Borden gives a brief history of Evelyn Waugh's hostile relationship with Hugh Trevor-Roper - and asks what it tells us about Oxford's post-war battle of ideas.