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The Habitable City
https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/research/the-habitable-city
The University of Leicester's Leverhulme Trust Research Grant for the Habitable City project.
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The Habitable City
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-habitable-city
British Academy Grant (£29,680) October 2012 - September 2015 Dr Toby Lincoln With fifty percent of China’s population living in cities, the world’s most populous nation is now its newest urban society.
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Leicester Physics students ‘prove’ Santa’s Christmas magic is REAL
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/christmas-magic
A group of Physics students at the University of Leicester have ‘proved’ that there is such a thing as Santa’s Christmas magic.
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Alternative beer label artwork by Leicester researchers featured in new exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/alternative-beer-label-artwork-by-leicester-researchers-featured-in-new-exhibition
Artwork by Leicester researchers is to be featured in a new exhibition exploring gender relations in night life drinking spaces.
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Research explores women who produce and consume mm erotica and visual pornography
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/research-sheds-light-on-women-who-produce-and-consume-m-m-erotica-and-visual-pornography
The majority of women who like gay male pornography and erotica imagine themselves as men during their sexual fantasies, new research has found.
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Study into asthma provides a paradigm shift in understanding of lifethreatening condition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/study-into-asthma-provides-a-paradigm-shift-in-understanding-of-life-threatening-condition
A new study led by our University to understand how to improve the health of severe asthma patients has made a breakthrough finding, with the discovery being described as a ‘paradigm shift’ in understanding the life-threatening condition.
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The lives and letters of the poor in the nineteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/own-write/lives-and-letters
Pauper letters are helping historians write a new ‘history from below' by giving a voice to the ordinary men and women before the twentieth century.
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Programme
https://le.ac.uk/engineering-the-past/programme
8.30am-9.00am Registration and Refreshments 9.00am-9.05am Welcome/Induction 9.05am-9.15am Opening Remarks by Professor Richard Thomas 9.15am-10.00am Introductory Keynote: Professor Ian Haynes Engineering and the future of the past: Perspectives from Rome Transformed. 10.00am-10.
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Staff wellbeing is central to NHS Workforce Plan’s success
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/health
More needs to be done to tackle staff wellbeing if the government’s NHS Workforce Long Term Plan is to be a success, says a University of Leicester academic.
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Leicester scientists help to drive technological revolution in developing electric vehicles
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-scientists-help-to-drive-technological-revolution-in-developing-electric-vehicles
Two academics from our University are part of a consortium that has received over £9 million for a project that will determine the ways in which spent lithium batteries can be recycled.