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Smoke-free campus campaign
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/smoke-free-campus
Being a considerate smoker Life on campus is a life for all. Our campus is a place for everyone to enjoy.
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Space scientists to stage show about Rosetta mission
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/space-scientists-to-stage-show-about-rosetta-mission
Leicester space scientists are coming together with a local poet to stage a show about the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission.
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Resource room
https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/about/resource-room
Based on campus in the Attenborough building, the Holocaust Resource Room provides specialised materials, facilities and a location to host events. The Resource Room is run by student volunteers. Find out how to visit us, or how you can volunteer with us.
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Refugee Week: 17 to 23 June 2019
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/13-refugee-week-university-of-sanctuary
The University of Leicester’s Refugee Week, from 17 to 23 June 2019, is part of the UK’s largest festival celebrating the contribution of refugees to British society through a programme of arts, culture and education.
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Politicians and media fuel hate crime in Britain say experts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/2018politicians-and-media-fuel-hate-crime-in-britain-2019-say-experts
Professor Neil Chakraborti and Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy, from our Centre for Hate Studies, say the ‘toxic climate’ surrounding the EU referendum debate has helped to ‘embolden’ people to target those they regard as ‘different’ or ‘foreign’.
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Mercury-bound spacecraft with Leicester-built instrument set to fly by Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/08-bepi-flyby
Space scientists at the University of Leicester are preparing to bid a final farewell to the BepiColombo spacecraft on Friday as it passes close to Earth on its way to Mercury, carrying equipment designed and built at the University.
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Leicester experts investigate ways scientists can safely collect extra-terrestrial samples
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/leicester-experts-extra-terrestrial-samples
New paper by team based at Space Park Leicester explores challenges of safely collecting extra-terrestrial materials for their Double Walled Isolator (DWI)
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Facts and figures
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/facts-figures
Costings The University of Leicester was the main financial backer of the project.
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Film Festival
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/events/film-festival
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Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en3128
Module code: EN3128 Although the genre of supernatural fiction known as 'Gothic' first came to prominence in the late 18th century, its preoccupations with transgression, terror and taboos, as well as its opposition to standard forms of realism, have re-emerged at...