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Leicester partners with Thailand with support of Thai Prime Minister, British Ambassador and Leicester City Football Club
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/leicester-partners-with-thai-prime-minister-british-ambassador-leicester-city-football-club
The University of Leicester has marked its commitment to Thailand and Vietnam through a series of partnership agreements that will pave the way for Thai students to study in Leicester, open the door to research collaborations and promote bilateral knowledge exchange.
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Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences Topics (JIST)
https://le.ac.uk/natural-sciences/study/student-research/jist
Students in Natural Sciences at the University of Leicester learn about scientific publishing and the peer review process by acting as authors, referees, and editors of the undergraduate Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences Topics (JIST)
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Scientists discover one of the most luminous new stars ever
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/scientists-discover-one-of-the-most-luminous-2018new-stars2019-ever
Astronomers have today announced that they have discovered possibly the most luminous ‘new star’ ever – a nova discovered in the direction of one of our closest neighboring galaxies: The Small Magellanic Cloud.
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Principal texts set out principles of intelligence
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/17-new-spying-publications
Leicester academic publishes two new key books on espionage and intelligence.
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Leicester PhD student one of UKs top conservationists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/leicester-phd-student-in-uks-top-50-conservationists-list
Tim Mackrill (pictured left), a PhD student in our Department of Genetics and Senior reserve officer of the Rutland Osprey Project, has featured at number 34 in the BBC Wildlife Magazine's top 50 conservation heroes in the UK.
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Chancellor issues call for Leicester grads to change the world for the better
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/maggie
The Chancellor of the University of Leicester has issued a rallying cry to the new crop of graduates to think big, fight injustice and change the world for the better.
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Funder open access policies
https://le.ac.uk/library/research-support/open-research/funder-open-access-policies
Information about research funders' open access polices for University of Leicester researchers
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Activist Museum Award 2025 winners announced by Research Centre for Museums and Galleries
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/winners-museum-activist-awards-2025
Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) has announced the winners of the prestigious Activist Museum Award 2025.
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The need to forge new models of international partnership
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/apollo-blog
Henrietta O’Connor shares the University of Leicester's international partnership model built on complementary areas of expertise, identifying shared aims, and finding areas of commonality.
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MBRRACE-UK collaboration sets out key recommendations for reducing inequities and improving care for babies born to Asian and Black mothers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/baby-care
The MBRRACE-UK collaboration, co-led by The Infant Mortality and Morbidity Studies (TIMMS) group at the University of Leicester has published the results of a confidential enquiry into the care of Black and Asian babies born in the UK in 2019.