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Call to avoid type 2 diabetes made during national campaign to prevent condition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/call-to-avoid-type-2-made-during-national-campaign-to-prevent-condition
A Leicester man with type 2 diabetes is urging people to do all they can to prevent being diagnosed with the condition which could potentially have “ruined his life”. Patrick Quinn was diagnosed with the condition that is usually associated with poor lifestyle in 2014.
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University of Leicester offers organisations free climate leadership training
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/university-leicester-offers-organisations-free-climate-leadership-training
Leicestershire organisations looking to increase their sustainability credentials can take advantage of free leadership training from the University of Leicester.
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English language requirements
https://le.ac.uk/study/international-students/english-language-requirements
To study with us, your English must be good enough for you to fully understand, and benefit from, your degree course. You can demonstrate your English language ability in a variety of ways.
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HE assessment guidance is successfully tackling racial inequality, study finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/ripiag
The most recent assessment of the Racially Inclusive Practice in Assessment Guidance (RIPIAG) has shown that its implementation has improved race inequality in Higher Education (HE).
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Academic working with British Council to empower women in Vietnam
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/academic-working-with-british-council-to-empower-women-in-vietnam
Expertise from our School Of Business is being applied to empower women in Vietnam through the development of creative social enterprise and design-led skills for female artisans and designers.
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Time to reflect on Holocaust Memorial Day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/time-to-reflect-on-holocaust-memorial-day
The origins of Nazi genocide will be explored at our University's annual Holocaust Memorial Day lecture at 6:00pm on Tuesday 24 January 2017.
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Transformative plan to pioneer a distinctive elite in higher education
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/transformative-plan-to-pioneer-a-distinctive-elite-in-higher-education
President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has unveiled a transformative plan to create a university that represents a ‘distinctive elite’ in the higher education sector.
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Year abroad
https://le.ac.uk/american-studies/study/undergraduate/year-abroad
Undergraduate students in American Studies at the University have the opportunity to spend their third year undertaking an approved course of study at one of our partner universities in the United States or Canada. Find out more.
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Leicester sociologist named as UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship winner
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/diego-garcia-rodriguez-ukri-future-leader-fellowship
The University of Leicester's Dr Diego García Rodríguez has been named as one of 77 talented early career researchers to receive funding from the UKRI's Future Leaders Fellowship.
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corinnefowler
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/author/csf11/
I am a Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature in the School of English and Director of the Centre for New Writing. I direct the Grassroutes: Contemporary Leicestershire Writing project and am Co-Investigator on an AHRC-funded project called Affective Digital Histories.