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Leicester expert contributes to BBC Watchdog report on safety of fidget spinners
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-expert-contributes-to-bbc-watchdog-report-on-safety-of-fidget-spinners
Professor Sarah Hainsworth (pictured), Head of the Department of Engineering, has contributed to a BBC Watchdog report investigating the safety of fidget spinners.
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Events
https://le.ac.uk/alumni/join-us/events
Take a look at events that have brought our alumni together recently.
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research
Archaeology and Ancient History at Leicester has long been in the vanguard of both archaeology and ancient history research in the UK.
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The impact of diasporas within the UK and across the globe to be examined at conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/the-impact-of-diasporas-within-the-uk-and-across-the-globe-to-be-examined-at-conference
A one-day conference will be held at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 17 September, at which 18 papers will present five years of research projects carried out at Leicester and Oxford focusing on the dispersal of people from their homelands.
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Policing and Diversity
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/cr2030
Module code: CR2030 The representativeness of the police service, and the relationship between the public and the police, is fundamental to police legitimacy. This module examines policing and diversity in two ways.
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Sheep urine study examines impact of greenhouse gas
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/sheep-urine-study-examines-impact-of-greenhouse-gas
Dr Mick Whelan and Professor Heiko Balzter from our Department of Geography have just started a three-year NERC-funded project to explore the interaction between livestock (sheep) grazing behaviour, urine composition and subsequent nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from urine...
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Hit to Lead Drug Discovery
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ch3211
Module code: CH3211 This module will introduce you to advanced principles and theories behind the study of drugs, their discovery, delivery, absorption, metabolism, and more.
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Strategies for Place Marketing
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mn7015
Module code: MN7015 In this module, you'll explore the strategies used by cities, regions and nations to successfully market and develop themselves, such as major international events like the Olympics, the leveraging of heritage and the attraction of foreign investment.
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Hit to Lead Drug Discovery
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ch3211
Module code: CH3211 This module will introduce you to advanced principles and theories behind the study of drugs, their discovery, delivery, absorption, metabolism, and more.
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Agile Cloud Automation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/co4217
Module code: CO4217 Cloud-based software system development involves a wide range of languages and notations, from high-level business modelling languages to low-level scripting languages, with many different abstraction facilities.