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University lecture focuses on 1994 genocide against the Tutsi community
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/university-lecture-focuses-on-1994-genocide-against-the-tutsi-community
The long term effects of rape on women survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi community will be discussed at a lecture at our University.
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Nobel Prize winner on campus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/nobel-prizewinner-on-campus
One of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was visiting the University of Leicester campus - on the day of the announcement of the winners was made.
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Six degrees of separation why it is a small world after all
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/six-degrees-of-separation-why-it-is-a-small-world-after-all
It’s a small world after all – and now science has explained why.
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Type 2 diabetes pill improves blood sugar control
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/type-2-diabetes-pill-2018improves-blood-sugar-control2019
A Type 2 diabetes pill taken once a day has been shown to ‘significantly’ improve the health of people with the condition, according to new research.
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Leicester professor is most productive and cited woman in urban geography
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-professor-is-most-productive-and-cited-woman-in-urban-geography
In a recent article published in the journal ‘Urban Studies’, Lily Kong and Junxi Qian analysed texts published about urban geography and urban studies between 1990 and 2010.
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Easter eggs hot cross buns and the microorganisms that help create them
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/easter-eggs-hot-cross-buns-and-the-microorganisms-that-help-create-them
With supermarket shelves filled with chocolate at this time of year, little thought goes into how the humble cocoa bean eventually becomes the popular Easter egg.
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Plans for extra Heathrow runway are already obsolete says University of Leicester academic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/plans-for-extra-heathrow-runway-are-2018already-obsolete2019-says-university-of-leicester-academic
Dr Simon Bennett from the University's School of Business has told a Commons Transport Select Committee that plans to build a new runway at Heathrow are ‘already obsolete’.
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Events
https://le.ac.uk/vulnerability-studies/vulnerability-studies-network/events
Find out more about past and upcoming events for the Vulnerability Studies Network at the University of Leicester.
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Centre for Psychological Health and Development
https://le.ac.uk/psychology-vision-sciences/research/psychological-health-development
Find out more about our Centre for Psychological Health and Development in the School of Psychology and Vision Sciences at Leicester.
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Courses for Teachers
https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/courses-for-teachers
Courses for Teachers including CELTA, TESOL, EAP and EMI offered at the ELTU.