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• Research highlights incredible insects during National Insect Week

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/2018national-insect-week2019-creeps-up-on-us-once-more

  The feature, revisiting four occasions where insects played an instrumental role in University research, can be found here Insects, bugs, creepy-crawlies - there are some who say they are not always the cutest critters, but they can certainly be one of the most useful and...

• “London Cider”- an inauthentic compound? – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/04/01/london-cider-an-inauthentic-compound/

  Summary of a 19th-century interpretation on cider making that reflects the role of place (city vs country) in the construction of authenticity.

• Should Social Scientific Debate occur outside Academic Journals?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/01/14/should-social-scientific-debate-occur-outside-academic-journals/

  Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on January 14, 2015 Lecturer in Social Theory and Consumption at the School, Stephen Dunne , attempts to renew a recent academic argument through a more accessible medium Social scientists engage in debates which matter to...

• Geography with Foundation Year BSc

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/geography-with-foundation-year-bsc/2026

  There’s always another way to follow your passion. If you don’t quite have the entry requirements to study geography at Leicester, this STEM Foundation Year degree is for you.

• Leicester professor is most productive and cited woman in urban geography

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-professor-is-most-productive-and-cited-woman-in-urban-geography

  In a recent article published in the journal ‘Urban Studies’, Lily Kong and Junxi Qian analysed texts published about urban geography and urban studies between 1990 and 2010.

• The case for ‘remain’ in the EU referendum – my view as the director of a €1.5 million European fund

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/13/the-case-for-remain-in-the-eu-referendum-my-view-as-the-director-of-a-e1-5-million-european-funded-research-project-in-history/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 13, 2016   At the end of last week, thirteen Nobel prize-winning scientists wrote a letter to the right leaning newspaper The Daily Telegraph , urging Britain to vote ‘remain’ in the forthcoming European Union (EU)...

• Exciting placebo research to be unveiled at literary event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/placebo

  Ground-breaking research into the study of placebos will be discussed at an event at the University of Leicester's Attenborough Film Theatre celebrating some of the UK’s most exciting writers

• Community engagement projects

  https://le.ac.uk/engagement/case-studies

  See how we're engaging with our local community to change lives for the better.

• Greening Italy: Literature and the Environmental Imagination

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/it3143

  Module code: IT3143 This module explores how contemporary Italian writers, artists and filmmakers engage with place and with ecological and environmental issues as a means of reflecting on the present and imagining the future.

• Greening Italy: Literature and the Environmental Imagination

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/it3143

  Module code: IT3143 This module explores how contemporary Italian writers, artists and filmmakers engage with place and with ecological and environmental issues as a means of reflecting on the present and imagining the future.