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Love Island star Dr Alex George to visit University to discuss mental health
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/dr-alex-george
Love Island star and Youth Mental Health Ambassador, Dr Alex George, will visit the University of Leicester to talk to students about the importance of protecting their mental health.
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Literary endowment fund will create new ‘writer in residence’ and professorship
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/jean-humphreys
Literary endowment fund will create new ‘writer in residence’ and professorship at Leicester University
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University of Leicester holds event celebrating city’s Caribbean community
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/caribbean-event
University of Leicester will host an event to acknowledge the contributions of the city’s Caribbean community. The African Caribbean population of Leicester were among the earliest arrivals to the city from the Commonwealth in the 1950 and 1960s.
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Honorary staff and visitors
https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/people/honorary-and-visitors
Browse the Emeritus, honorary and visiting staff who work, teach and research in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and see their contact details.
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Findings could represent breakthrough in how autopsy practice is conducted in UK and worldwide
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/findings-could-represent-breakthrough-in-how-autopsy-practice-is-conducted-in-uk-and-worldwide
A ground-breaking study by Leicester pathologists and radiologists could represent a breakthrough in how autopsy practice is conducted in the United Kingdom and around the world.
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University of Leicester at the forefront of the fight against far right extremism
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/19-national-action
New research provides invaluable insight into far-right political group National Action.
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Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system
An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.
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Easy access for local people to university libraries
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/libraries
Universities in Leicester and Leicestershire are opening up their libraries to public users.
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Women less likely to receive treatment for deadly heart condition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/women-heart-disease-leicester
Women, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, and those from the most deprived communities are less likely to receive treatment after a diagnosis of the heart valve disease aortic stenosis, according to research by experts from the University of Leicester.
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Home to Joe Orton and Sue Townsend collections receives national accreditation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/archive
An archive service which holds the collections of Leicester literary greats, Joe Orton and Sue Townsend, has received approval from The National Archives.