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Introduction to Italian Studies
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/it1028
Module code: IT1028 This introductory module explores the history and culture of Italy from the Unification to the Second World War.
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Introduction to Italian Studies
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/it1028
Module code: IT1028 This introductory module explores the history and culture of Italy from the Unification to the Second World War.
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Regular exercisers should be reassured by results of heart study, experts claim
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/heart-study
A study by University of Leicester researchers, investigating the belief that too much exercise can be bad for the heart has found that the heart’s structure and function does adapt to high levels of habitual physical activity but these changes stay within normal ranges
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Consuming Authenticities
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/consuming-authenticities
Arts and Humanities Research Council (£54,753) November 2014 – November 2015 Cultural products often depend on ideas about authenticity for commercial success, drawing emotional responses from consumers and evoking a sense of local, ethnic or even national identity.
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Partners
https://le.ac.uk/engagement/partners
Taking a partnership approach with key organisations in the region, we can be more effective in making a transformative impact in communities and on society.
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Expert view: Legal aid for asylum seekers is hard to come by – it’s no wonder criminal advisers are taking advantage
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/legal-aid-asylum-seekers
Dr Diego Garcia Rodriguez from the School of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, and colleagues at the universities of Exeter and Birmingham respond to a BBC investigation into asylum advice this week, in this article published by The Conversation:
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Anti Social Finance*
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/02/11/anti-social-finance/
Posted by dharvie in School of Business Blog on February 11, 2015 Senior Lecturer in Finance and Political Economy, David Harvie , suggests the UK’s nascent social investment market is more a matter of imposing market discipline and less a matter of ‘doing well by doing good’.
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Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image out now
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/monkey-to-man
One of the most iconic depictions of evolution, the “march of progress”, will be explored for the first time in a new book by a University of Leicester academic.
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Historian to speak at Holocaust events
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/historian-to-speak-at-holocaust-events
The Holocaust and its legacy will be explored at three events in the city and county Professor Aubrey Newman, Emeritus Professor in the School of History.
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Introduction to Media and Communication
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ms1001
Module code: MS1001 (double module) This module aims to introduce you to key media concepts, forms, texts and systems and their importance for social life.