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Hours of driving and watching TV lower IQ scores research suggests
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/hours-of-driving-and-watching-tv-lower-iq-scores
A doctoral student from our University has commanded global media coverage for a study that found that driving for more than two hours a day appears to steadily reduce intelligence.
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Expert opinions cover British Summer Time and Henry VIIIs six wives
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/expert-opinions-cover-british-summer-time-and-henry-viiis-six-wives
PhD students Liz Round and Katie Bridger, from the School of History, Politics and International Relations, debate Lucy Worsley’s ‘Six Wives’ programme which aired on BBC One in December 2016.
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Spring seminar series 2016
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/spring-seminar-series/archive/2016
Browse our 2016 spring seminar series in the Victorian Studies Centre.
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Dr Richard Hopkinson
https://le.ac.uk/hopkinson-group/richard-hopkinson
Learn more about Dr Richard Hopkinson, our lead in the Hopkinson Group at the University of Leicester.
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 19 25 November
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-19-25-november
Dr Daniel Ladley from the Department of Economics has written an article for The Conversation discussing how cooperative groups work better than competitive groups.
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Life on the home front
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war/life-on-the-home-front
Learn more about life on the home front during the First World War from interviews with residents of Leicestershire during the time.
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Bake off finalist examines festive favourites under the microscope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/josh-nottingham
Leicester chemistry researcher and Bake off 2023 finalist Josh Smalley visits the University of Nottingham to put his bakes under the microscope
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Exceptional & Extraordinary
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/exceptional-and-extraordinary
Exceptional & Extraordinary has commissioned four disabled artists to create four emotionally powerful, impactful, provocative and high-quality artworks.
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FeedSax - Feeding Anglo-Saxon England
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/people-and-places/feedsax-feeding-anglo-saxon-england
The University of Leicester's archaeology research collaboration with Oxford University, Feeding Anglo-Saxon England AKA Feedsax
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Outside and beyond: 'Deconstructing a Medieval manuscript'
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/research/case-studies/medieval-manuscript
Museum Studies PhD student Armand De Filippo discusses his research into sensory responses to Medieval manuscripts.