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Key Events in the Evolution of Planet Earth Viewed Through the Geological Lens of Wales - a field course
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gl3114
Module code: GL3114 Journey through 150 million years of early Palaeozoic Earth history expressed through the rock succession of Wales, the birthplace of the Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian systems.
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Adding empathy to health consultations found to boost patient and staff satisfaction with the NHS
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/empathy-health-consultations-boost-patient-staff-satisfaction-nhs
Adding empathy to all health consultations will improve the lives of patients and medical staff and reduce NHS costs, according to a major new publication.
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Professor Yuri Dubrova
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/yuri-dubrova
It was with great sadness that we have learned of the death of our colleague and friend Professor Yuri Dubrova who passed away on 26 January 2023.
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Breakthrough in lung cancer treatment is based on University of Leicester specialist’s 20 year old discovery
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/dean-fennell
A breakthrough in treatment for an aggressive fatal lung disease has been made thanks to a two decades’ old discovery by a University of Leicester cancer specialist.
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Partners and affiliated student groups
https://le.ac.uk/engagement/community/project-light/partners
We are honoured to partner with a number of organisations serving the homeless population in Leicester.
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The Activist Museum Award 2025
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/activist-museum-award
The Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG), in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, is delighted to announce the second round of the Activist Museum Award.
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Groundbreaking research identifies what makes human brains – and humans – unique in the animal world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-concept-cells
A neuroscientist at the University of Leicester has identified a fundamental difference between human and animal brains. This breakthrough, published today in the journal Cell, offers an explanation for what makes Homo sapiens so vastly different from even our nearest relatives.
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Dr Calvin Jephcote
https://le.ac.uk/cehs/people/calvin-jephcote
Lecturer in Exposure Science cj191@leicester.ac.uk I am a socio-environmental scientist with academic and consultancy expertise in spatial modelling, environmental epidemiology, and social mobility. I received my EPSRC funded Ph.D. degree from the University of Leeds in 2013.
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Diagnostics and Sensing
https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/research/chemistry-of-life/diagnostics-and-sensing
Learn more about diagnostics and sensing within our research theme of the chemistry of life in the School of Chemistry.
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Type 2 diabetes could overwhelm NHS unless changes are made Leicester experts warn
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/type-2-diabetes-could-overwhelm-nhs-unless-changes-are-made-leicester-experts-warn
Melanie Davies CBE (pictured), a Professor of Diabetes Medicine at our University and the Leicester Diabetes Centre, has commented on the rise in people suffering from type 2 diabetes.