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• The University's origins in the Great War

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/great-war

  Read about the origins of the University within the context of the First World War, and how the University College came to be founded in 1921.

• Ptero Firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ptero-firma-footprints-ancient-flying-reptiles

  Study led by the University of Leicester links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them, revealing a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.

• Economics Skylark Scholarship and Economics Award

  https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/scholarships-bursaries-discounts/economics-skylark

  The Economics Skylark Scholarship and Economics Award are intended for applicants with Black African or Caribbean heritage from socio-economically challenged backgrounds who will be commencing study of an Economics undergraduate degree programme.

• Beating health inequalities

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/beating-health-inequalities

  Professor Kamlesh Khunti and Dr Manish Pareek played a leading role in helping understand how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected ethnic minority populations.

• DNA fingerprinting

  https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting

  In 1984 Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys discovered the technique of genetic fingerprinting at the University of Leicester, learn more about his work.

• Very premature infants Towards better care

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/very-premature-infants-towards-better-care

  Born too soon, very premature infants are particularly vulnerable and need appropriate care. The European project EPICE (Effective Perinatal Intensive Care in Europe) examines how medical practices based on scientific evidence are incorporated into the care of these neonates.

• Careers and Employability Service

  https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/careers/career-development-service

  Our Career Development Service is here to provide you with insight into a range of careers, and give you the best student experience and support.

• Study shows how to better prepare medical students to provide compassionate care

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/medical-students-stoneygate-empathy-centre

  A new study describes the creation of a curriculum which embeds empathic communication skills throughout undergraduate education for medical students.

• MOVIN’ ON UP: A Social Mobility Comic

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/movin-on-up-a-social-mobility-comic/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 The research of Anthony Miro Born expressed in the form of a comic to communicate easily complex ideas to a wider audience.

• Early-Career Researchers: your views are needed

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/30/early-career-researchers-your-views-are-needed/

  Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 30, 2015   The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) want to find out more about the issues facing early-career social scientists.