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Keep you titbits, let’s have full equality, inclusion and representation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/07/27/keep-you-titbits-lets-have-full-equality-inclusion-and-representation/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on July 27, 2017 50 years ago today, the Sexual Offences Act became law. It partially decriminalised homosexual acts between men. The ‘partial’ is important here as inequality still existed.
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New Institute to bolster research among Leicester’s Health and Care professionals
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/institute-for-health
A new institute has been launched to radically boost the number of research opportunities available to Leicester’s nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, health scientists and pharmacists
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Foreign Aid Explorer (US)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/11/foreign-aid-explorer-us/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 11, 2019 USAID has developed a new tool which aims to increase aid transparency in relation to US historical foreign aid.
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Leicester’s tuberculosis research boosted by six-figure funding for lab equipment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/leicester-tuberculosis-research-boosted-funding-lab-equipment
The University of Leicester’s research into tuberculosis has been bolstered with a six-figure grant to fund new lab equipment.
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Chinese Women’s Magazines of the Qing and Early Republican Period
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/28/chinese-womens-magazines-of-the-qing-and-early-republican-period/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 Chinese Women’s Magazines of the Qing and Early Republican Period A collaborative project funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the German Humboldt...
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Lord Willetts appointed chair of the UK Space Agency’s Board
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/uksa-willetts
University of Leicester Chancellor David, Lord Willetts has been appointed as the new chair of the UK Space Agency’s Board.
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Leicester’s Jupiter research cited on new Royal Mail set
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/05-jupiter-stamp
The latest commemorative stamps from Royal Mail celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Royal Astronomical Society. And the work of space scientists in our School of Physics and Astronomy gets a mention. Jupiter’s auroras feature on one of the £1.55 stamps.
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Public invited to have their say on Universitys development plans
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/public-invited-to-have-say-on-universitys-development-plans
Earlier in October, our University announced a transformative £500 million programme of investment that will improve student and academic facilities as well as public spaces over the next decade.
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AI’s role in healthcare to be debated at international empathy conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/ai-empathy-stoneygate-centre
The impact of artificial intelligence on healthcare will come under the spotlight at a major international conference led by experts from the University of Leicester
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Hitler’s anti-semitism to be explored in public lecture by leading historian
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/26-hitler-lecture
Author and historian Professor Sir Richard J Evans will visit the University of Leicester on Thursday 3 October to deliver the annual Aubrey Newman Lecture for the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.