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  • Outgoing Chancellor Lord Willetts commends University of Leicester welcome

    The University of Leicester’s outgoing Chancellor The Rt Hon Lord Willetts FRS has commended its long-held reputation of being welcome to all, as he passes the baton to his successor.

  • The Lives of Others, Staff Blogs, University of Leicester

    Posted by Maria Rovisco in Performing Citizenship on March 26, 2015 The Lives of Others – A commentary on Anthony Minghella’s Breaking and Entering (2006)   This is a short commentary that I have written for the workshop ‘Bordering Strangeness’ organized by Chris Rumford...

  • The Changing Leicester Collection

    A blog about cataloguing the Changing Leicester collection

  • Universities 'must give something back to students' says Leicester Vice-Chancellor

    Universities “must do what we can” for students, because the pandemic has “already taken so much away”, says Vice-Chancellor Professor Nishan Canagarajah.

  • Finding Helena

    Posted by in Waugh and Words on April 28, 2020 May 3rd is the Feast of the Finding of the True Cross. Here Sara Haslam, our volume editor for Evelyn Waugh’s novel about St Helena, reflects on the time she has spent with the woman Waugh credits with the discovery.

  • Space firm behind pioneering ‘shoebox-sized laboratory’ comes to Leicester

    Frontier Space Technologies is the latest company on the European Space Agency – Business Incubation Centre for the United Kingdom (ESA-BIC UK) programme at Space Park Leicester, the University of Leicester’s pioneering £100 million science and innovation park

  • Leicester professor interviewed for upcoming Canaletto exhibition at the Queens Gallery

    Venetian born artist Canaletto is most famous for his iconic cityscapes of 18th Century Venice and London and counted King George III among his numerous fans. As a result of the king’s favour, to this day a sizeable proportion of Canaletto’s work is held by the Royal Collection.

  • Using portable nanopore DNA sequencers to combat wildlife crime

    A team from our University has been awarded a prize for their proposal to crack down on wildlife crime using a portable DNA sequencing device, the MinION - developed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies - to read the ‘barcode genes’ of animals affected by illegal trafficking.

  • Team Leicester continues to dominate the competition

    Wednesday 25 April was a momentous day for Team Leicester as the men’s futsal team took home the BUCS Sport Trophy Final- a University of Leicester first.

  • Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith

    “When I was President I had to go to Senate meetings, me with 90-odd white guys, so I always turned up wearing banana yellow and big hair to scare the mortar boards off them.

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