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• Making tourism work for poverty alleviation

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/impact-case-studies/making-tourism-work-for-poverty-alleviation

  University of Leicester research has investigated whether and how tourists’ curiosity for impoverished neighbourhoods, communities and slums can help mitigate against the bad reputation that slums often suffer and can contribute to empowering residents.

• 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

• About

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/about/

  Consuming Authenticities is the project blog of an AHRC-funded research project “Consuming Authenticities: Time, Place and the Past in the Construction of ‘Authentic’ Foods and Drinks” involving scholars from the Universities of Leicester, Exeter, Wales Trinity St David, and...

• 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.

• Australia

  https://le.ac.uk/study/international-students/countries/australasia/australia

  We welcome students from Australia. Find out about entry requirements, the Australian student community and other country-specific information.

• Research Involving Animals – Division of Biomedical Services

  https://le.ac.uk/dbs

  Research Involving Animals – Division of Biomedical Services unit houses the animals used for research and testing.

• The Leicester policy expert making a difference in Parliament

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/rick-whitaker

  Rick Whitaker, Professor of Politics at the University of Leicester, is bringing his research to Parliament thanks to his special advisor role.

• 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.

• 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.

• Dr Emma Staniland

  https://le.ac.uk/people/emma-staniland

  The academic profile of Dr Emma Staniland, Lecturer in Spanish & Latin American Studies