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Over £20 million government award marks Midlands’ bio-economy strengths
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/24-bbsrc-dtps
A consortium of Midlands research-active universities, including the University of Leicester, has just been awarded research studentships worth over £20 million to build on the Midlands’ already significant bio-economy and success in life sciences and agricultural research.
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Exhibition brings Leicester’s Second World War voices to life to mark VE Day’s 80th anniversary
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/website-leicester-second-world-war-voices-ve-day-80th-anniversary
The voices of Leicester people who lived through the Second World War can now be heard on a website launched in time for the 80th anniversary of VE Day (Thursday 8 May 2025).
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Open Cosmos joins Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/open-cosmos
The satellite and information firm is the latest to join the University of Leicester’s £100 million science and innovation park
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Community playground is revitalised with a new coat of paint
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/adventure-playground
University of Leicester Vice Chancellor and President Professor Nishan Canagarajah was among a group of volunteers helping to breathe new life into Highfields Adventure Playground last week
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Experts outline how to reduce COVID-19 health inequalities for ethnic minority groups
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/covid-ethnic-minority
An international collaborative, led by the University of Leicester and University of Manchester, has published a new paper that outlines ways to reduce COVID-19 health inequity for ethnic minority groups
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Medicine offers weight-loss hope for patients with type-2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/surpass-2
New research by academics at the University of Leicester published today (Friday) has given fresh hope to patients with type-2 diabetes, after Eli Lilly and Company’s SURPASS-2 clinical trial showed that 60% of patients achieved a 10% percent or greater weight loss with 15 mg...
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Phage film receives UK debut at University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/salt-in-my-soul-screening
Diane Shader Smith, an author in her own right and editor of Mallory’s posthumous book Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life which inspired the film, said: “Mallory didn’t have to die. We call it a preventable tragedy.
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Multiple award-winning poet, novelist and playwright to share personal story of resilience at Literary Leicester event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/fred-daguiar
Multiple award-winning poet, novelist and playwright will be giving the University of Leicester an exclusive insight into his personal story of resilience as part of this year’s Literary Leicester Festival.
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Psychologists create first-ever body-maps of hallucinations
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/psychosis-hallucinations
Psychosis is a term which describes experiences where an individual may have difficulties in determining what is real and what is not real. Research indicates psychosis is associated with experiencing trauma, adverse life events, and stress.
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Effective crew resource management vital to police air support, research shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/npas
The CRM framework has been applied to NPAS training and operations for many years, but Dr Bennett’s project was the first time the organisation’s application of CRM techniques has been studied sociologically, specifically through in-vivo ethnographic research.