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• Prestigious global award for School of Education academic

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/glenn-fulcher

  Glenn Fulcher, Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Assessment in the University of Leicester’s School of Education, is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Messick Memorial Award for his outstanding contribution to validation theory.

• Up to a third of people with type 2 diabetes not taking prescriptions properly

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/05-type-2-diabetes-prescriptions

  Leicester researchers have used a unique screening approach to suggest that nearly a third of people with type 2 diabetes may be putting their health at risk because they are not taking their medications correctly.

• The case for ‘remain’ in the EU referendum – my view as the director of a €1.5 million European fund

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/13/the-case-for-remain-in-the-eu-referendum-my-view-as-the-director-of-a-e1-5-million-european-funded-research-project-in-history/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 13, 2016   At the end of last week, thirteen Nobel prize-winning scientists wrote a letter to the right leaning newspaper The Daily Telegraph , urging Britain to vote ‘remain’ in the forthcoming European Union (EU)...

• New carbon-monitoring satellite will shed light on photosynthesis thanks to Leicester scientists

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/microcarb-carbon-monitoring-satellite-photosynthesis

  An algorithm designed by scientists at the University of Leicester and National Centre for Earth Observation, based at Space Park Leicester, will allow the MicroCarb mission to observe solar induced fluorescence (SIF) – a by-product and indicator of plant photosynthesis

• Using Leicesters landmarks to get children counting

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/using-leicester2019s-landmarks-to-get-children-counting

  A new book by the School of Education is bringing maths to life for young children across Leicester by using images of familiar locations around the city to help them find numbers and practise counting.

• Ribbon wraps up mystery of Jupiters magnetic equator

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/ribbon2019-wraps-up-mystery-of-jupiter2019s-magnetic-equator

  The discovery of a dark ribbon of weak hydrogen ion emissions that encircles Jupiter has overturned previous thinking about the giant planet’s magnetic equator.

• Experts to explore what a good Brexit is for city and county

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/experts-to-explore-what-a-good-brexit-is-for-city-and-county

  The roadmap to Leicester and Leicestershire’s post-Brexit prosperity is to be explored at a meeting of minds organised by our University that will see professional and academic expertise, and the general public answer the question: ‘What would a good Brexit look like for...

• Common childhood eye disorder is best treated by patching earlier, new study shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/lazy-eye

  Most children with a ‘lazy eye’ benefit from earlier patching, new research by University of Leicester experts show

• Gamma-ray burst is ‘Rosetta Stone’ for finding neutron star collisions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/gamma-ray-burst-neutron-star

  A highly unusual blast of high-energy light from a nearby galaxy has been linked by a team of scientists including astronomers at the University of Leicester to a neutron star merger.

• UK Space Agency establishes Midlands base at Space Park Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/space-agency-regional-office

  University of Leicester’s £100 million science and innovation park to host regional office, part of national expansion aimed to enable UK Space Agency to collaborate more closely with the UK’s thriving space sector