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Leicester archaeology student shares passion for local history with fellow firefighters
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/dig-fire
A watch manager in the Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS) is helping other firefighters in the region to get involved with archaeology.
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Space images confirm England’s drought areas correlate with high land surface temperatures
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/space-drought-images
Earth Observation (EO) experts from the University of Leicester have highlighted the correlation between land surface temperatures and drought-affected areas of the United Kingdom using data captured from space.
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Glenfield’s Judith is first UK participant in women-only heart surgery study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/heart-surgery-iwd
The first patient in the UK to take part in a women-only cardiac surgery research trial underwent a life-changing heart operation at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust recently.
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Leicester scientists describe astronomical phenomenon never witnessed before
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-scientists-describe-2018astronomical-phenomenon-never-witnessed-before2019
Researchers from our University have contributed to a simultaneous global announcement - in London, Washington DC, and Munich - of the discovery and results from the joint detection of gravitational waves and light from the collision of a pair of mutually...
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Archive
https://le.ac.uk/medicine/about/leicester-medical-society/meetings-lectures/archive
Listen to a selection of recordings of previous lectures hosted by the Leicester Medical Society.
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Bradgate Park Fieldschool is back for a third season
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/bradgate-park-fieldschool-back-for-third-season
The University's Fieldschool at Bradgate Park will return for a third season on Monday 5 June.
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Debates in Archaeological Heritage
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar1013
Module code: AR1013 ‘Heritage’ is a very powerful idea, and we will begin this module by thinking about what heritage actually is and what it means in the contemporary world.
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The Political Theory of Disobedience and Protests
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/pl3154
Module code: PL3154 This modules examines the political theory of disobedience and protest. You will look at traditional and contemporary theories concerning the uses of civility and incivility, violent and nonviolent direct action, resistance, refusal, and rioting.
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Famous fossil collectors childhood memento discovered on UK coastline
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/ffamous-fossil-collector-childhood-momento-discovered-on-uk-coastline
Researchers have been studying a recently discovered childhood token - believed to have belonged to the pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning - on a beach in Lyme Regis, Dorset.
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Computational Creativity
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/co3104
Module code: CO3104 (double module) Computational Creativity introduces the theory and practice of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for creative applications.