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Corporate Governance
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/af2136
Module code: MN2136 Failures of corporate governance can sink companies. Reputational damage, costly legal settlements, slumps in share prices and even full-blown collapse can all stem from poor leadership at the top.
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Leicester diabetes figures up by a third in five years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/leicester-diabetes-figures-up-by-a-third-in-five-years
The number of adults in Leicester with diabetes has risen by 33 per cent in the last five years, according to new figures.
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Leicester rehabilitation programmes highlighted by national charity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/06-leicester-rehabilitation-programmes-highlighted-national-charity
Two initiatives developed at Leicester’s Hospitals have been cited in the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) new five-point plan to achieve the biggest impact for people with, or at risk of, heart and circulatory diseases.
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Professor Melanie Davies
https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/edi-in-practice/walk-with-women/melanie-davies
Learn more about Melanie Davies, a Professor of Diabetes Medicine in the College of Life Sciences.
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Buy Nothing Day: Critical Management in Action
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2013/11/30/buy-nothing-day-critical-management-in-action/
Posted by Jennifer Smith Maguire in School of Business Blog on November 30, 2013 On the day after Black Friday, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, discusses the goals and history of ‘Buy Nothing Day’.
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Study finds tuberculosis changes liver metabolism and could promote diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/tuberculosis
Scientists from the University of Leicester have discovered that tuberculosis disrupts glucose metabolism in the body
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Leicester rises in Times Higher Education World University Rankings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/leicester-rises-in-times-higher-education-world-university-rankings
A definitive table of world University rankings has seen the University of Leicester climb 32 places to 167 – placing Leicester firmly among the top 1 per cent of universities in the world.
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Seeds from Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor tree take root in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/seeds-hiroshima-atomic-bomb-survivor-tree-take-root-leicester
Seeds from trees which survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima have taken root in Leicester in time for the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.
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International Ocean Discovery Program
https://le.ac.uk/iodp
Learn more about The International Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP3); a marine research collaboration that explores Earth’s history and dynamics.
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Government funding for project to supply Africa with electricity from waste
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/08-pyropower-nigeria-electricity-waste
An Earth Observation Innovation team from the University of Leicester is collaborating with PyroGenesys Ltd. and a number of UK and international organisations on a project to generate off-grid electricity for remote rural communities in Africa starting with Nigeria.