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• Scientists model impact of green infrastructure on City Centre traffic pollution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/scientists-model-impact-of-green-infrastructure-on-city-centre-traffic-pollution

  Scientists from EarthSense Systems and our University have published the results of a study into the effect of urban trees on air pollution.

• The Centre for Victorian Studies

  https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies

  Welcome to the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester. We have a distinguished record of innovation and excellence in interdisciplinary Victorian Studies research and teaching at postgraduate level.

• Real-world business challenges solved by adding maths students to the equation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/maths-students-industrial-placements

  University of Leicester's School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences celebrates another round of successful collaborations between industrial partners and students.

• University of Leicester co-launches International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/avoidable-deaths

  The Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) has launched the first International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths today (13 March) in Izumiotsu, Japan. International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths hopes to raise the visibility of disaster deaths.

• 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...

• The Cultural Heritage of LGBT Activism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/the-cultural-heritage-of-lgbt-activism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 A new online exhibit from Europeana.   It gives a short history of Pride festivals using items such as photos and badges from Europe’s leading library and museum collections.

• Bloomberg: geographical distribution of revenue

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/28/bloomberg-geographical-distribution-of-revenue/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 28, 2013 Analysing a company’s revenue geographic breakdown is interesting angle to predict future strategic development. Find case studies using the function FFM on your Bloomberg terminals.

• Italian Women's Writing

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/it3137

  Module code: IT3137  Students will be introduced to the theoretical and practical implications of a study of women’s writing in Italy. Texts will be viewed within a shifting social, cultural and political context over the twentieth century.

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 12 18 November

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-12-18-november

  Dr Athina Karatzogianni from the Department of Media and Communication has written an article for The Conversation about 'hacktivist' group Anonymous and how it hopes to challenge the Islamic State.

• The “Pains of Imprisonment”: an historical sociology of penal transportation?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/11/11/the-pains-of-imprisonment-an-historical-sociology-of-penal-transportation/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on November 11, 2016   A few years ago, the eminent scholar of the Russian Gulag , Professor Judith Pallot , challenged me to consider the relevance of the sociology of incarceration as a means of understanding convict...