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The PERFORM trial
https://le.ac.uk/perform
The PERFORM (Personalised Exercise-Rehabilitation For people with Multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity)) trial has been awarded funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Programme Grants to co-develop (with patients, caregivers, clinicians, and...
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International Security
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/pl7168
Module code: PL7168 Issues of security and insecurity are central to international relations, as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq War of 2003 underline.
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International Security
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/pl7168
Module code: PL7168 Issues of security and insecurity are central to international relations, as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq War of 2003 underline.
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Garry Buck
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/garry-buck
The University has learned with regret of the death of hospitality van driver Garry Buck. Garry’s job with LSP involved delivering to buildings right across the campus so he came into contact with many staff and was well-loved by all.
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Community leader honoured by University of Leicester for outstanding public service
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/community-leader-honoured-university-leicester-outstanding-public-service
Distinguished community leader Suleman Nagdi MBE DL has received an honorary award from the University of Leicester.
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Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system
An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.
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TIMMS: Improving outcomes for babies and children
https://le.ac.uk/timms/research
Explore the research projects being carried out by the TIMMS group at the University of Leicester.
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Buried ‘without any pompe or solemne funeral…’
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/richard-iii-and-leicester/buried
After the battle, Richard’s corpse was returned to Leicester, accompanied by Henry Tudor and the victorious Lancastrian army. By all accounts, Richard’s body was not treated well after the battle.
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Ukrainian mum finds sanctuary and a career lifeline at the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/inesa
A Ukrainian mum-of-two has found sanctuary from war – and been able to resurrect her career – at the University of Leicester.
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Research reveals earliest evidence yet of huge hippos in Britain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/hippo-fossil
Neil Adams, PhD researcher in the Centre for Palaeobiology Research at the University of Leicester and Earth Collections Project Officer at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, said: “It was very exciting to come across a hippo tooth during our recent excavations...