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Chancellor’s International Postgraduate Taught Scholarship
https://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/fees-funding/scholarships-discounts/chancellor
To honour Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock PhD as the University of Leicester's Chancellor, we are offering our Chancellor's International Scholarship to eligible postgraduate international students.
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University of Leicester scientists capture Neptune’s auroras for first time using JWST
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/neptune-auroras-first-time-jwst
Long-sought auroral glow finally emerges under JWST’s powerful gaze, as team led from University of Leicester observed Neptune using JWST’s near-infrared instrument
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Research project will help those affected by Huntington’s disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/leicester-huntingtons-disease-award
Clinical psychologist Dr Sarah Gunn, from the University of Leicester, has been awarded nearly £2 million to advance her work in the field of Huntington’s disease
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AutumnFest arrives at the University’s Botanic Gardens
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/autumnfest
Leicester’s Botanic Gardens will be alive with music, workshops, arts and crafts, children’s activities, entertainment and more this September
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Keep you titbits, let’s have full equality, inclusion and representation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/07/27/keep-you-titbits-lets-have-full-equality-inclusion-and-representation/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on July 27, 2017 50 years ago today, the Sexual Offences Act became law. It partially decriminalised homosexual acts between men. The ‘partial’ is important here as inequality still existed.
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Revisiting Holst’s Jupiter a hundred years later
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/02-jupiter-planets-suite
Reworking of Jupiter from Holst’s Planets suite benefits from insights from a University of Leicester planetary scientist.
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University of Leicester diabetes professors named among nation’s lifesavers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/16-nations-lifesavers
Identifying and preventing diabetes 1b6DMuqdN1c|Professor Kamlesh Khunti and Professor Melanie Davies CBE featured in national campaign.
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Donor’s legacy will help train future surgeons
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/surgical-suite
The dying wish of a former surgeon is helping medical students at the University of Leicester to follow in his footsteps
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Archaeology uncovers hidden layers of Chesterfield’s past
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/archaeology-uncovers-hidden-chesterfields-past
An archaeological excavation in Chesterfield town centre has revealed well preserved remains that shed new light on how people lived in the town over hundreds of years.
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University of Leicester archaeologists explore city’s Roman past
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/university-leicester-archaeologists-explore-city-roman-past
The stories behind Leicester’s rich Roman heritage have been compiled into a book by University of Leicester archaeologists to mark the reopening of the city’s Jewry Wall Museum.