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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...

• 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...

• “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.

• 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.

• 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

• Knowing where to look

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/knowing-where-to-look

  Whilst nothing of the friary remains above ground today, its site has never actually been lost, despite one early map of Leicester, the 1610 Speed map, getting its location wrong.

• Student gospel choir to give pop-up concert at Leicester’s John Lewis for Black History Month

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/student-gospel-choir-concert-john-lewis-black-history-month

  A student gospel choir will entertain John Lewis shoppers as part of the University of Leicester’s Black History Month celebrations.

• 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.