HyPIR at Leicester

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Upcoming HyPIR highlights! We’re one step closer to reading Andrew Johnstone’s 'Spinning the World: The Public Relations Industry and American Foreign Relations'. It’s even got a web page: cambridge.org/gb/universityp…

HyPIR’s recent research day was a reminder of the *flipping* interesting work being done. With colleagues potting away at their research and writing, it’s good to celebrate successful outcomes. Watch this space to hear about recent and upcoming HyPIR research highlights…

With the US elections looming, two of our own have shared their analysis of British public opinion. See what Associate Professors Ben Clements and Alex Waddan have to say: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2024…

A massive congratulations to Jo Storey for being elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. What an achievement! thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/joanna… To read about Prof Storey's ERC Advanced Grant, see le.ac.uk/news/2024/apri…

Celebrating the hard work of our HyPIR grads and staff today!

History at Leicester is being considered as a part of the University's 'strategic review.' In celebrating the success of our graduates this week, let us be mindful of all the staff in HyPIR who have gotten them there - their expertise, passion and dedication.

Excited for HyPIR's postgraduate conference tomorrow, with topics including data generation in nuclear research, Africa-Europe migration, Femicide in Nigeria, Human Trafficking, Black Cultural Archives, Education in Victorian Leicestershire & 18 C venereal disease transmission🤯

Recent HyPIR highlights! James Moore’s co-edited book (with Marianna Charountaki & Liam Anderson) is now out: A Century of State-Making in Iraq: Baghdad, Kurdistan, and the Development of the Constitution: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Recent HyPIR highlights! Andrew Futter has successfully led a team in a bid for a Leverhulme Research Centre for Humanity and Space. It is the only Leverhulme Research Centre that has been awarded to a single institution! le.ac.uk/research/centr…

Recent HyPIR highlights! Zoe Groves has successfully been awarded a Leverhulme International Visiting Fellowship for her project ‘Exploring New Approaches to Dance and Performance in African History’. Can’t wait to see what comes of this!

Recent HyPIR highlights! Lauren McLaren obtained an ESRC for ‘Analyzing generational differences in attitudes to immigration in Europe’ & Myriam Fotou has BA funding for her project on ‘Deviant deaths: research gaps in managing irregular death at the border’. Well done!

Our own Dr Jenn Hobbs' recent monograph 'Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies, and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics, and Security' has been shortlisted for the prestigious BISA L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize. Well done Jenn, and fingers crossed! 🤞

Great to see @SarahAInskip & my research reach wider audiences! Mudlarker @liz_lizanderson engages with 'Material Encounters' (Historical Research, 2023) in her blog on tobacco pipe finds on the London foreshore amudlarksdiary.com/2023/06/25/bac…

Read our Open Access article here! 'Material encounters: the alternative use of clay tobacco pipes in England and Wales, c.1600–1900' 👇👇👇 academic.oup.com/histres/articl…

Calling all HyPIR third years! HyPIR is running a series of dissertation writing sessions. The idea is to provide opportunities for you to crack on with the dissertation and write with others (and, get some biscuits whilst doing so!). Come and go as you can!

What did it mean to date and navigate single life in 18th century Wales? Our own @DrAngelaMuir chats about 'booty calls' and 'bundling' on the podcast 'Betwixt the Sheets'. We are all ears! open.spotify.com/episode/5kOMbn…

Reminder that our own, Zainab Mai-Bornu, is screening her documentary, 'Bringing Women's Voices Back In: Gender and Oil Conflict in the Niger Delta,' followed by a Q&A. Don't miss out! Wed, 23 Oct, 5:30pm, University Film Theatre (Attenborough)

If you can't make it in person, join Dr Bishop's talk today remotely. Email Angela Muir ([email protected]) or Roey Sweet ([email protected]) for Teams link or with any queries about the Centres for Urban History and Local and Regional History joint seminar series.