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  • Student awards and prizes

    https://le.ac.uk/geology/study/student-awards

    The University of Leicester Geology students have been very successful in winning prizes and awards for their scientific work. Our students travel worldwide to conferences and field areas, and are in the vanguard of many research areas. Read here about some recent successes.

  • Viking figurines were ‘more than just jewellery’, and were used and handled in a variety of ways, including long-term curation, 'decapitation', and attached to Christian artefacts 

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/viking-jewellery-mythology-silver-bronze

    Senior author Dr Christina Tsoraki, of the School of Heritage and Culture, University of Leicester adds, "By studying the wear of the 'valkyrie' pendants -- the valkyries being female mythological beings that would bring slain warriors from the battlefield to...

  • Biological Sciences (Microbiology) MBiolSci

    https://le.ac.uk/courses/biological-sciences-microbiology-mbiolsci/2026

    Microorganisms may be small, but they tell us more about life on Earth than almost any other life form. On this degree you will learn how and why microorganisms cause disease and how microbes have been used for millennia in everything from food production to sewage treatment.

  • Geology with Palaeontology BSc

    https://le.ac.uk/courses/geology-with-palaeontology-bsc/2026

    Life. Evolution. Extinction. They might be huge concepts, but you can easily break them down through the lens of palaeontology. If you love fossils, and what they can tell us, this geology degree is for you.

  • Politics and Economics BA

    https://le.ac.uk/courses/politics-and-economics-ba/2026

    This degree at Leicester combines the study of politics with economics, and explore how each discipline impacts the other.

  • Ancient History and Archaeology BA

    https://le.ac.uk/courses/ancient-history-and-archaeology-ba/2026

    Delve into the past and gain practical and intellectual skills with the University of Leicester’s Ancient History and Archaeology degree.

  • Imperial forces take campus as the Battle for Victoria Park rages

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/the-force-awakens-as-darth-vader-and-droids-make-an-impact-on-campus

    At great risk to their personal safety, our Marketing Communications Team has captured exclusive video footage of the Battle for Victoria Park.

  • Researcher suggests mainstream media is responsible for shallow coverage of antirape activism

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/researcher-suggests-mainstream-media-is-responsible-for-shallow-coverage-of-anti-rape-activism

    Dr Kaitlynn Mendes (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has argued in a new book that the mainstream media often neglects anti-rape activism by delivering ‘shallow’ coverage.

  • Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/innovative-use-of-social-media-in-the-pakistan-elections/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This  used crowd sourced technology.

  • Medical Biosciences (Genetics) MBiolSci

    https://le.ac.uk/courses/medical-biosciences-genetics-mbiolsci/2026

    Genetics and genetic mechanisms can tell us so much about heredity and evolution. When researched in the context of diseases in a massively outbred human population, genetics leads us to discover better, more personalised diagnosis and treatments of diseases.

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