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Potatoes and Peppa Pig: Young writers channel Leicester playwright
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/edna-welthorpe-winners
A spoof letter of complaint written by a London school pupil has won a competition inspired by Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.
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Effective crew resource management vital to police air support, research shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/npas
The CRM framework has been applied to NPAS training and operations for many years, but Dr Bennett’s project was the first time the organisation’s application of CRM techniques has been studied sociologically, specifically through in-vivo ethnographic research.
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Distant supermassive black hole shows high velocity sign of over-eating
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/distant-supermassive-black-hole-high-velocity-over-eating-770
University of Leicester scientists describe how the capture of new matter - lasting a few days and corresponding to several Earth masses - formed a ring around the hole, before being partly swallowed by the hole, with excess matter ejected as a high velocity wind.
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Media and publications
https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/cpbe/media-and-publications
Find out about updates, publications and activities undertaken by the Centre for Palaeobiology and Biosphere Evolution
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Midlands Medical Law Consortium
https://le.ac.uk/law/research/research-projects/midlands-medical-law-consortium
The Midlands Medical Law Consortium organised a series of seminars/workshops examining the topic of ‘Faith and Belief and its Impact on the Development and Operation of Healthcare Law’ over a period of 2 years.
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Regional and local history
https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/english-local-history
Since local boot and shoe manufacturer Thomas Hatton donated his collection of books on antiquarianism at our foundation, the University of Leicester Library has been collecting material on regional and local history.
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National Cardiac Surgery Clinical Trials Programme
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/about/heart-surgery/national-cardiac-surgery-clinical-trials-programme
Lists our aims and objectives and the clinical study groups involved in our National Cardiac Surgery Clinical Trials Initiative
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Further questions
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/about/heart-surgery/top-10-priorities/further-questions
In addition to the Top 10 priorities, a number of further research questions were identified: Quality of life What is the best tool to assess Quality of Life (QOL) in specific cardiac surgery disease? What modifiable factors can be targeted to improve QOL? Are...
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/cria/research
CRÍA researches art institutions and the idea of art collections, from the most well-known galleries and museums to independent studios and shows.
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Honorary Degree for Bishop of Loughborough
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/january/16-bishop-guli-honorary
Guli Francis-Dehqani, Bishop of Loughborough Guli Francis-Dehqani, Bishop of Loughborough|The Right Reverend Doctor Guli Francis-Dehqani, Bishop of Loughborough, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Leicester.