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Abolition and Adventure: Narratives of the Atlantic World
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en7254
Module code: EN7254 Accounts of global travel and adventure were extremely popular with eighteenth-century British readers.
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Weapons of plant production
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/plant-production
Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison researches the modification of genetic makeup to make stronger and healthier species of plants to help tackle poverty and ensure survival.
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Motor City Stories
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/26/motor-city-stories/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 26, 2020 Archivist Gary Collins explains how the digitisation of an audio collection is enabling its contents to be used in a variety of ways, including for Coventry City of Culture 2021.
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Newly appointed Archbishop of Cardiff discusses time as student at University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/archbishop-cardiff
Leicester alumnus and newly appointed Archbishop of Cardiff, Mark O’Toole, has spoken about his time at the University. His Excellency was installed as the eighth Archbishop of Cardiff and Bishop of Menevia in June, at St David’s Cathedral in the Welsh capital.
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Earth-based observations prepare Juno for the Great Red Spot Encounter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2017/06/30/earth-based-observations-prepare-juno-for-the-great-red-spot-encounter/
University of Leicester staff blogs
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Physics & Astronomy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/author/leigh_fletcher/
Juno Mission unveils the depth and structure of planet’s shrinking red spot and colourful bands Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on October 29, 2021 Dr.
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Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Leicester scientist working with NASA discovers a long-sought global electric field on Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/global-electric-field
A rocket team including a University of Leicester space scientist reports the first successful detection of Earth’s ambipolar electric field: a weak, planet-wide electric field as fundamental as Earth’s gravity and magnetic fields
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University library feeds more than the mind thanks to free veg seed giveaway
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/university-leicester-seed-library-free-veg-giveaway
The University of Leicester’s growing reputation has been bolstered with a scheme which allows its library members to take out seeds, as well as books.
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Leicester contribution to major Parliamentary report
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/space-defence
A leading expert in space warfare based at the University of Leicester has contributed to a new Parliamentary report on defence of the UK’s assets in space.