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Metals in Synthesis
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ch3205
Module code: CH3205 The key to efficient and sustainable synthetic methods is to minimise energy use and maximise reaction selectivity.
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Introductory Chemistry Practical
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ch0062
Module code: CH0062 Chemistry is an experimental science and you'll be taking part in many practical experiments during your undergraduate study.
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Respiratory and Cancer Precision Medicine
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/bs3083
Module code: BS3083 The second precision medicine module will continue the consideration of current cutting-edge topics in the clinical sciences arena: Respiratory Precision Medicine This part of the module will include: The molecular and cellular basis of respiratory...
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Aortic aneurysms
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/intervention/aneurysms
Vascular surgery research at Leicester, led by Professor Matt Bown, has a major interest in the clinico-pathological mechanisms underlying the development of abdominal aortic aneurysms.
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Unknown facts about Outer Space and the Cold War
https://le.ac.uk/hypir/subject-tasters/unknown-facts
Dr Bleddyn Bowen, expert in space politics and military technology in outer space, provides insights into Cold War history.
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Seven year itch Henry VIIIs secret love
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/seven-year-itch-henry-viiis-secret-love
The Tudor monarch King Henry VIII is perhaps best known for his prodigious appetite for marriage, famously taking six wives during his lifetime – and now former University lecturer David Baldwin has published a book suggesting that he was close to...
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Ut Vitam Habeant - So that they may have life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/ut-vitam-habeant-so-that-they-may-have-life
This week, to commemorate Armistice Day, the University has been lighting up its Fielding Johnson Building red at night and will observe a two minute silence on Friday 11 November.
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/cssah/research
Research institutes, centres, projects and groups comprise the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities research interests at the University of Leicester.
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Feeding habits of ancient elephant relatives explored in new study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/tooth-wear-sheds-light-on-the-feeding-habits-of-ancient-elephant-relatives
How can we ever know what ancient animals ate? For the first time, the changing diets of elephants in the last two million years in China have been reconstructed, using a technique based on analysis of the surface textures of their teeth.
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New research reveals why drivers hit and run
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/new-research-reveals-why-drivers-2018hit-and-run2019
A new interim report by Dr Matt Hopkins and Sally Chivers from our Department of Criminology has started to identify the reasons why motorists ‘hit and run.