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Athena SWAN
https://le.ac.uk/ggb/about/athena-swan
The Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester is committed to providing a good working environment for its staff, and in 2016 was successful in achieving an Athena SWAN Bronze award.
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Genes for learning and memory are 650 million years old, study shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/big-bang
A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered that the genes required for learning, memory, aggression and other complex behaviours originated around 650 million years ago.
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Researchers recognised for public engagement skills
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/researchers-recognised-for-public-engagement-skills
Winners of a competition that challenged our researchers to summarise their research in a mere three minutes have been announced.
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Standing committees of Senate
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/committees/senate
Find out about the standing committees of Senate, including committees for academic policy, enterprise, honorary degrees and research.
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Gender in the Spanish American Development Novel: Selfhood and Society
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sp3161
Module code: SP3161 This module explores four novels by Spanish American women writers of the Latin American ‘Post-Boom generation’ (1980s onwards), with a particular view to examining the portrayal of gendered identity formation that takes place in their work.
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Academic, research and technical staff
https://le.ac.uk/physics/people/academic
Browse the academic staff who work in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and see their contact details.
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Social and Cultural Geography
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gy2413
Module code: GY2413 In this second year module you'll learn about the different sub-disciplinary histories of (Euro-American) social and cultural geography, and the emergence of a ‘cultural turn’ that brought the two together to be ‘socio-cultural geographies’.
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Social and Cultural Geography
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/gy2413
Module code: GY2413 In this second year module you'll learn about the different sub-disciplinary histories of (Euro-American) social and cultural geography, and the emergence of a ‘cultural turn’ that brought the two together to be ‘socio-cultural geographies’.
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Social and Cultural Geography
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy2413
Module code: GY2413 In this second year module you'll learn about the different sub-disciplinary histories of (Euro-American) social and cultural geography, and the emergence of a ‘cultural turn’ that brought the two together to be ‘socio-cultural geographies’.
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Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy3432
Module code: GY3432 "Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources." So said the then-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2012.