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• University of Leicester-led programme to help police officers approaching retirement wins award

  Date: 23/11/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/police

  Psychologists from the University of Leicester have won a national award for their innovative work supporting senior police leaders’ well-being.

• Dr Rachel Winter has won the Royal College of Psychiatrists Higher Psychiatric Trainee of the Year Award

  Date: 11/11/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/rachel-winter

  Dr Rachel Winter, honorary consultant in old age psychiatry at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust and associate professor in empathic healthcare...

• Clearing 2022: Brilliant Bianca grasps second chance at university in Leicester

  Date: 16/08/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/clearing-bianca

  Psychology graduate Bianca Semczuk says choosing Leicester through Clearing “couldn’t have been a better decision”.

• Do winners cheat more? New research refutes previous high-profile study

  Date: 03/08/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/games-cheating

  New large-scale research led by the University of Leicester shows that winning does not cause people to cheat, in stark contrast to a previous...

• Man vs. machine: New Leicester research to compare human eye-tracking with AI in first study of its kind

  Date: 07/06/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/eye-tracking

  The human brain’s ability to track and process hazards will be pitted against an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) tool in a new...

• Why the universal age-happiness ‘U-shape’ is a myth

  Date: 24/05/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/u-shape-happiness

  New research shows that happiness often does not increase as people get older.

• Psychologists create first-ever body-maps of hallucinations

  Date: 27/10/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/psychosis-hallucinations

  Leicester psychologists have, for the first time, created body-maps of the sensations which arise during hallucinations in people experiencing...

• Leicester historians guest edit Centenary journal edition

  Date: 12/10/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/howard-journal

  Leading historians from the University of Leicester have guest edited a special Centenary issue of the prestigious Howard Journal of Crime and...

• University of Leicester receives grant from Movember to help develop peer support programme for senior leaders in UK Police Force

  Date: 26/08/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/movember-police-support

  Up to 250 police superintendents across police forces in England and Wales will soon benefit from a peer support programme designed to support...

• Harnessing the ‘wisdom of crowds’ can help combat antibiotic over prescription

  Date: 02/11/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/wisdom-of-crowds

  A new study has demonstrated that using  the ‘wisdom of crowds’ (also known as collective intelligence) of three or more medical prescribers, can...