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Health and safety policies
https://le.ac.uk/policies/estates-and-campus/contractors/policies
Working as a contractor for Leicester means there are Health and safety policies that must be followed. Learn more.
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Student study investigates how lasers can control lightning
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/student-study-investigates-how-lasers-can-control-lightning
Physics students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy have investigated the possibility of inducing, directing and controlling lightning strikes using lasers.
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Industry Project
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/pa3241
Module code: PA3241 The Physics Skills Electives are designed to help you improve your skills and enhance the career options available to you.
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Industry Project
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/pa3241
Module code: PA3241 The Physics Skills Electives are designed to help you improve your skills and enhance the career options available to you.
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Juno and Leicester – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/23/juno-and-the-university-of-leicester/
University of Leicester's history in space and planetary sciences, and the relation to the Juno mission today.
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Archaeology students from University of Leicester unearth very big Roman house in the country
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/roman-villa
Finds from latest excavation in Leicestershire may provide insight into the ‘rural charm’ of Britain to the Romans, while first-year archaeology students developed their excavation skills with Time Team filming for a feature later in the year
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Charity shop find is former student’s long-lost compass from University of Leicester days
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/charity-shop-find-alumnus-long-lost-compass
Staff at University of Leicester help to reunite an alumnus with a lost treasure after volunteers at Martock Charity Shop in Somerset discovered a compass with a 60-year old note
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Locating the choir within the church
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/locating-the-choir
A small area above the human remains in Trench 1 was carefully widened with a digger to give archaeologists better access to the burial. Jo Appleby and Turi King began to carefully remove the grave soil by hand. Work was slow, to avoid damage to the skeleton.
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Structural biology
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/structural-biology
Work in the College of Life Sciences on the structure of proteins is providing insight on a wide range of fundamental processes such as cell motility, drug metabolism, gene activation and tuberculosis virulence.
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PhD researchers rise to Three Minute Thesis challenge
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/three-minute-thesis-seaweed
More than 100,000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold in the UK in 2020, with further demand for battery technology in hybrid vehicles.