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  • University of Leicester staff blog School of English BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz visits the Joe Or

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/26/bbc-arts-editor-will-gompertz-visits-the-joe-orton-archive/

    Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on June 26, 2014 The BBC’s chief Arts Editor Will Gompertz visited the University on 25 June to make a radio feature on the Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.

  • BBC commissions Leicester artist to mark ‘Culture in Quarantine’

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/spectrum-sounds-bbc-commission

    Professor Hugill directs the Creative Computing programme at the University of Leicester and is an Honorary Creative Fellow at the Attenborough Arts Centre, as well as sitting on its Advisory Board. He also leads the AHRC-funded ‘Aural Diversity’ project.

  • The White Boffin's Burden

    https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/commissions/white-boffin-burden

    Find out more about the Centre for New Writing's commissioned piece which looks into the perceptions of academics and research in ODA (official development assistance) countries vs academics and research in Britain.

  • Director appointed to lead new Institute for Policy

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/institute-policy

    The University of Leicester has appointed Professor Neil Chakraborti as the founding Director of the new Institute for Policy at Leicester which will officially launch in early 2024.

  • TEDxLeicester to take satellite technology one step beyond

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/tedxleicester-to-take-satellite-technology-2018one-step-beyond2019

    Some of the innovative and cutting-edge applications that satellite technology and its data are being put to will be explored in a TEDxLeicester event in partnership with the University of Leicester and the National Space Centre.

  • 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...

  • Heresy and Orthodoxy in the works of Bede

    https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/heresy-and-orthodoxy-in-the-works-of-bede

    British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (£224,198) September 2010 - August 2013 Dr Peter Darby Dr Peter Darby has been awarded a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to carry out a research project ‘Heresy and Orthodoxy in the Works of Bede’. Bede (c.

  • Olive Banks (1923-2006)

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/inspirational-women/olive-banks

    “Any attempt to raise feminist arguments was met with indifference if not outright hostility, and the paucity of women academics in general increased my feeling of isolation.

  • Exposure to air pollution in pregnancy and early life has important impacts on lung function in early childhood

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/27-pollution-during-pregnancy

    New research by the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability (CESH) at the University of Leicester indicates that exposure to air pollution from road traffic as early as the first trimester of pregnancy and in early life is associated with small but significant...

  • Research initiative to explore how media can help romance blossom in post-disaster environments

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/research-initiative-to-explore-how-media-can-help-romance-blossom-in-post-disaster-environments

    Media Cultures, a new research initiative that explores the role of the media in our shared cultural lives, will hold its official launch at a free public event on Thursday 16 June between 4.00-6.30pm at Bankfield House.

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