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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...
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Obituary: Sir Michael Atiyah
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/14-obituary-sir-michael-atiyah
Sir Michael Atiyah, who was widely regarded as Britain’s greatest mathematician, has died aged 89. Sir Michael was Chancellor of the University of Leicester between 1995 and 2005.
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Positive impact
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/climate-change/positive-impact
Explore our research and teaching for positive change
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Tan Yue: Three years after graduation, I found my way home
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/graduate-profiles/tan-yue
Tan Yue graduated with an MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies in 2013 and has taken her experience and knowledge back to her home country and started her career in Guangdong Times Museum.
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Projects
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/projects
The Centre for English Local History is involved with a number of projects, funded by councils and trusts such as the AHRC and Leverhulme Trust. Learn more about the variety of projects we are working on.
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Sole2Soul: Narrate, Curate, Rejuvenate
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/projects/sole2soul
Sole2Soul promotes meaningful intergenerational exchange between “silver champions” (project participants aged over 55) and teenagers about artefacts from the Boot and Shoe exhibit at Harborough Museum.
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HumanKind
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/humankind
We are looking afresh at Calke Abbey’s past, reassessing the stories told about this place and exploring their potential to foster more meaningful connections.
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University of Leicester academic takes leading role in major new exhibition on Anglo-Saxon England
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/anglo-saxon-exhibition
Anglo-Saxon exhibition King Edgar’s Charter for the New Minster, Winchester – British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian A VIII ff.
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Study proves reducing sitting time boosts office staff’s work engagement and wellbeing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/11-reducing-sitting-time-boosts-office-staffs-wellbeing
Teams from the University of Leicester and Loughborough University investigated simple solutions to reducing sitting time in the office.
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EU students
https://le.ac.uk/study/welcome/your-arrival/identity-check-visa-checkpoint/visa-checkpoint/eu-students
If you’re an EU, EEA or Swiss citizen you can continue to travel to the UK to study on courses of up to 6 months in duration without needing a visa. You can cross the UK border using a valid passport which should be valid for the whole time you are in the UK.