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• University of Leicester scores Silver for sustainability

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/sustainability-award

  EcoCampus has awarded the University a Silver certificate for its sustainability efforts

• Dating the Social Death of the Eighteenth Century Criminal. By Rachel Bennett

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/06/23/dating-the-social-death-of-the-eighteenth-century-criminal-by-rachel-bennett/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on June 23, 2015 In April 2015 I presented a paper at a conference held at the University of Leicester entitled ‘When is Death?’ The conference was organised by members of the Wellcome Trust funded project, Harnessing the...

• The Re-Emergence of ‘Race’ in the Rhetoric of the British Radical Right

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2024/01/11/the-re-emergence-of-race-in-the-rhetoric-of-the-british-radical-right/

  Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on January 11, 2024 Chris Allen – Associate Professor Around the turn of the century, an ideological turn was evident within the British far-right milieu.

• A hilarious line-up at Attenborough Arts

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/a-hilarious-line-up-at-attenborough-arts

  The University of Leicester’s Attenborough Arts Centre will take part in Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival this February; hosting twelve new shows by local favourites and new emerging comedians.

• ‘Permissible Beauty’ – New immersive installation at Hampton Court Palace will explore changing notions of beauty through history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/permissible-beauty

  Why are some forms of beauty more permissible, more highly valued, than others? A new immersive installation at Hampton Court Palace will bring past and present together to explore this question and to celebrate a new chapter of British Beauty for the 21st century.

• Cutting ourselves out of the worlds largest economic bloc would undermine our position as a global leader in science and innovation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/cutting-ourselves-out-of-the-world2019s-largest-economic-bloc-would-undermine-our-position-as-a-global-leader-in-science-and-innovation

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle (pictured) has joined 95 other UK university Vice-Chancellors in outlining why universities are stronger in Europe.

• Global cost of dementia set to reach US $1 trillion by 2018…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/global-cost-of-dementia-set-to-reach-us-1-trillion-by-2018/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 …according to the latest annual World Alzheimer report 2015 . It also includes literature reviews on the societal impact of dementia and evidence that its rate is increasing.

• Making space accessible

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/space-power/space-accessible

  We enable spacecraft power generation and thermal management by developing power systems that enable electricity generation from the rare element americium.

• Royal visit to the University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/22-royal-visit

  Duke and Duchess of Cambridge |The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit the University on Wednesday 28 November.

• Protests against Trump in Britain may well signal the beginning of a new wave of AntiBrexit mobilisation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/201cprotests-against-trump-in-britain-may-well-signal-the-beginning-of-a-new-wave-of-anti-brexit-mobilisation201d

  Dr Fabian Frenzel (pictured), from the University of Leicester’s School of Business, has suggested that the recent protests against President Trump’s travel ban, seen across the UK, could signal a new wave of Anti-Brexit mobilisation.