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The University of Leicester (/ ˈ l ɛ s t ər / ⓘ LEST-ər) is a public research university based in Leicester, England. The main campus is south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park . The university's predecessor, University College, Leicester , gained university status in 1957.
The Philosophical Gourmet Report, also known as the Leiter Report or PGR, is a ranking of graduate programs in philosophy in the English-speaking world. It was founded by philosophy and law professor Brian Leiter and is now edited by philosophy professors Berit Brogaard and Christopher Pynes.
The University of Leicester — a leading research university based in Leicester, East Midlands, England. The main campus is about a mile from the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park and Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College .
It was named the Stanley Burton Centre in 1993 after Stanley Burton of Leeds endowed a Lectureship in Jewish Studies at the University of Leicester. It was renamed the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in 2011, with an expanded focus on other cases of mass violence in Europe and its colonies from the 19th to the 21st century.
Chris Allen, British sociologist and associate professor at the Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester; Penelope Allison, Professor of Archaeology; Lyman Andrews, American Studies; Isobel Armstrong, scholar of nineteenth-century poetry and women's writing; Graeme Barker, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
The building comprises three distinct elements: an 18-storey tower block containing 270 offices and tutorial rooms; a low-rise building, known within the University as the 'Attenborough Seminar Block', containing seminar rooms and computing facilities; and an underground area housing two large lecture theatres and the University Film Theatre.
The college now occupies a site adjoining Victoria Park and the University of Leicester that was previously occupied by Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys (also known as Wyggeston Boys' School). The school takes the Wyggeston name from the former school and from Wyggeston Grammar School for Girls, which both closed in the 1970s.
During Shaw's time at Leicester, in the academic year 2020–21, the university closed its teaching of English Language and of medieval English literature, putting relevant staff at risk of redundancy. [5] [6]: 138 In autumn 2021, Shaw took up a lectureship in Medieval Literary Studies at Durham University. [1]