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Medical group celebrates five-year milestone
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/student-medical-group-medrace-fifth-anniversary
A group set up to prevent and address racial harassment in medicine is celebrating its five-year anniversary
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Record funding Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/record-funding-leverhulme-centre-for-humanity-and-space
New Centre aims to increase the understanding of how humans engage with and experience space
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Worlds collide: University of Leicester experts to help upgrade Large Hadron Collider experiment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/leicester-experts-upgrade-large-hadron-collider-experiment
Expertise from Leicester in particle detectors to contribute to next upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment, thought to be the first time Leicester scientists are working directly on instrumentation for the world’s largest particle accelerator
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Distant supermassive black hole shows high velocity sign of over-eating
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/distant-supermassive-black-hole-high-velocity-over-eating-770
University of Leicester scientists describe how the capture of new matter - lasting a few days and corresponding to several Earth masses - formed a ring around the hole, before being partly swallowed by the hole, with excess matter ejected as a high velocity wind.
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Home to Joe Orton and Sue Townsend collections receives national accreditation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/archive
An archive service which holds the collections of Leicester literary greats, Joe Orton and Sue Townsend, has received approval from The National Archives.
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University of Leicester space scientist appointed trustee of Royal Museums Greenwich
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/emma-bunce-rmg
Professor of Planetary Plasma Physics Emma Bunce has worked on multiple international space missions and has been appointed a trustee of Royal Museums Greenwich, including the ‘birthplace of modern astronomy’, the Royal Observatory Greenwich
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Knowledge Transfer Partnership rated Outstanding by UK Government
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/pj-care
A research collaboration between the University of Leicester and a specialist neurological care and rehabilitation centre has been hailed as Outstanding by Innovate UK.
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Press
https://le.ac.uk/evelyn-waugh/press
Explore the press releases and media coverage on the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project with the University of Leicester.
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Publications
https://le.ac.uk/humanising-space/publications
Here is a list of the space-related publications from our academic project members: Bleddyn E. Bowen, Original Sin: Power, Technology, and War in Outer Space (Hurst, 2022/Oxford University Press, 2023) Bleddyn E.
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Our research culture
https://le.ac.uk/research/culture
Research is at the heart of everything that we do at the University of Leicester, and is core to our institutional strategy. We will create a positive and enabling research environment, delivering world-leading research that transforms lives.