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• The Country House: Management, Preservation, Education

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ha7106

  Module code: HA7106   English Country Houses are some of the most remarkable historical structures in existence. Many great houses in this country survive together with contents which have been assembled over centuries. They have enormous educational potential.

• University of Leicester experts appointed to prestigious panel on harassment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/10-vc-appointment

  The University of Leicester’s incoming Vice-Chancellor Professor Nishan Canagarajah and leading expert on hate crime Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy will sit on an elite board to tackle racial harassment in higher education.

• Female genital mutilation seeking alternative rites of passage

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/female-genital-mutilation-seeking-2018alternative-rites-of-passage2019

  The potential of a method of replacing female genital mutilation as an initiation into womanhood with culturally sensitive alternatives is to be explored.

• Outreach

  https://le.ac.uk/english/outreach

  Staff in English at the University of Leicester are committed to presenting their work outside Higher Education, and to discussing research ideas beyond the university. Find out about our talks, events, public readings, local education projects and more.

• Geography BA

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/geography-ba/2026

  With a Leicester Geography BA you'll learn how to confront the pressing human geography issues of our time. While this degree mainly focuses on human geography, you'll have the option to learn about physical geography too.

• Mechanical Engineering BEng

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/mechanical-engineering-beng/2026

  Spacecraft and satellites. Reactors and robots. Mechanical engineering is at the core of most systems that move. But how is technology improving their performance? To build the future, you need to keep up with it. And this degree will show you how.

• Road noise makes your blood pressure rise – literally

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/road-noise

  Study shows the sound of traffic is associated with increased risk of hypertension, calls for public health measures to reduce noise exposure

• Collective performance pay outperforms individual bonuses, University of Leicester review finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/reward-pay

  Team-based performance-related pay is more productive than individual performance-related pay, according to a University of Leicester review.

• University of Leicester alumnus amongst ten Windrush pioneers to have portrait commissioned by the King

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/windrush-geoff

  Sir Godfrey ‘Geoff’ Palmer OBE is one of ten pioneering members of the Windrush Generation who have had portraits commissioned by King Charles III to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush.

• Textiles, Dress and Identity in the Roman World

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ah3079

  Module code: AH3079 A lot of evidence survives for the study of Roman dress: fragmentary textiles, texts and iconography in a variety of media.