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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.
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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...
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 714 April
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-7-14-april
Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans from the Centre for Medical Humanities has written an article for The Conversation exploring how it could be a good idea to discuss topics such as sex, rape and pornography in classrooms in order to properly educate young people about...
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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.
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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.
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Astrophysics Seminar Wed 17th 3pm
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/11/15/astrophysics-seminar-wed-17th-3pm/
Posted by ab520 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 15 November 2021 This week’s seminar will be by Nienke van der Marel (Leiden) on “ Novel views on planet formation and dust evolution: connecting protoplanetary disk demographics with exoplanets, debris disks and exoplanet...
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Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/psychology-with-cognitive-neuroscience-bsc/2027
How can we harness the brain’s activity to better understand how we think, feel and behave? This is what cognitive neuroscience is all about. And studied side-by-side with psychology, the answers have an impressive range of real-world applications.
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Funded opportunities
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/funded-opportunities
Listed below are the funded studentship opportunities which are currently accepting research student applications.
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Students create a buzz by providing new homes for bees
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/students-create-a-buzz-by-providing-new-homes-for-bees
Our University has welcomed two new beehives at the Brookfield campus as part of a new sustainability awareness initiative.
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Levels of financial inequality leave vast majority in poverty
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/levels-of-financial-inequality-leave-vast-majority-in-poverty
The significant and ‘unfair’ level of financial inequality in countries around the world will be discussed at a free public event organised by the Leicester Actuarial Science Society (LASS) at 2:00pm on Wednesday 10 February in the Rattray Lower Ground Floor Lecture Theatre.