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Useful links
https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/useful-links
Further online resources, within the University of Leicester and beyond about Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys life and research.
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Open response to PETA UK Universities campaign
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/legislative-responsibilities/open-response
Read our open response to PETA UK in regards to their campaign against Universities using animals for research and experiments.
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Students have their say on living in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/23-graduate-retention
Student voice event Student voice event|More than 100 university students have been giving their views on living in Leicester as part of the city’s first Leicester Student Voice event.
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Checklist aims to ensure clinical trials are inclusive of the wider population
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/inclusion-checklist-college-surgeons
Members of the public along with a team from the University of Leicester have come together to co-produce an Inclusion Checklist for Clinical Research.
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Leicester sociologist named as UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship winner
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/diego-garcia-rodriguez-ukri-future-leader-fellowship
The University of Leicester's Dr Diego García Rodríguez has been named as one of 77 talented early career researchers to receive funding from the UKRI's Future Leaders Fellowship.
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University of Leicester honours charity chief for raising the ambitions of hundreds of thousands of young people
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/university-leicester-honours-charity-chief-raising-ambitions-hundreds-thousands-young-people
The co-founder of a social mobility charity devoted to raising young people’s educational aspirations has received an honorary award from the University of Leicester.
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Fingers off the button
https://le.ac.uk/centenary/events/difficult-conversations/fingers-button
Fingers off the button On Thursday 5 May, Turi King, Professor of Public Engagement and Genetics, facilitated another talk in our ‘Difficult Conversations’ series where Professor Andrew Futter and guests explored the risks of the rising use of nuclear weapons, along with how...
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Tree rings reveal increasing rainfall seasonality in the Amazon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/tree-rings-increasing-rainfall-seasonality-amazon
Study involving University of Leicester researcher shows intensified seasonal cycles, with wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier, increasing the dangers of flooding and drought
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apatel
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/author/ap147/
As a Learning Developer for Leicester Learning Institute, I create opportunities for learners to understand and develop the academic literacies, skills and approaches required by their "academic culture" or discipline.
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Identifying the remains
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification
Many different scientific techniques were used to identify the remains of Richard III. Find out how the osteology, carbon dating, forensic analysis, genetic analysis and genealogy all contributed to the identification process.