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Belton, Leicestershire
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect/leicestershire/belton
Listen to speakers from Belton, Leicestershire from a range of backgrounds as part of the dialect project between researchers from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Leicester.
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Dry Doddington, Lincolnshire
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect/lincolnshire/dry-doddington
Listen to speakers from Dry Doddington, Lincolnshire from a range of backgrounds as part of the dialect project between researchers from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Leicester.
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Leicester featured in University Business magazine
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/leicester-featured-heavily-in-university-business-magazine
University Business magazine features no less than three University of Leicester stories in March. A whole page is dedicated to the visit by Sir David Attenborough to the University in January, where he officially opened the new Attenborough Arts Centre gallery extension.
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Exploring medieval culture and art
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/saxon-sculpture
Professor Joanna Story explores early medieval culture and art through well-travelled manuscripts from scholars and scribes of the time.
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Evidence of 2,000 years of human activity found on market site in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/evidence-2000-years-human-activity-market
University of Leicester Archaeological Services carrying out excavations at the site of the city’s new market square, with discoveries including a Roman infant burial and remains of a dungeon believed to be from the 16th century
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Catherine Morley
https://le.ac.uk/people/catherine-morley
The academic profile of Professor Catherine Morley, Head of School at University of Leicester
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Mining big data
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/mining-big-data
Major trauma or life threatening injuries is the most likely cause of fatality in children and adults up to the age of 55 in the UK, causing some 3,000 hospital deaths a year.
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Uncovering the past relationships between humans and animals
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/relationship-animals-humans
Professor Richard Thomas researches the changing relationships between humans and animals through bone analysis, and the contemporary relevance of these findings.
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Colonial Countryside
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/commissions/colonial-countryside
The Colonial Countryside project assembles authors, writers, historians and primary pupils to explore country houses’ Caribbean and East India Company connections. It commissions, resources and publishes new writing.
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The University of Leicester receives further £1.25 million to fund world-leading social sciences research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/esrc-impact
University of Leicester has been awarded an additional £1.25 million by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to support its world-leading social sciences research.