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• University of Leicester Chancellor to deliver Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/university-leicester-chancellor-maggie-royal-institution-christmas-lectures

  University of Leicester Chancellor, Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, will give this year’s Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution.

• $100 Million Women: Hollywood’s Women Directors

  https://le.ac.uk/film/research/100-million-women

  Dr Claire Jenkins’ project $100 Million Women explores the careers of women directors working in Hollywood who have made over $100 million at the American domestic box office with a single film.

• Never mind the mohawks: here’s how punk made what we watch and read

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/punk-film-literature

  University of Leicester’s Dr Emma Parker hosts talks as part of the Punk Festival Weekender from 18-20 August.

• Don’t panic, Mary Berry’s Bakewell tart recipe is safe!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/05/19/dont-panic-mary-berrys-bakewell-tart-recipe-is-safe/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 19, 2016 University of Leicester Homepage, 13 June 1997 (source: Wayback Machine) It is almost impossible to conduct academic research today without at some stage needing to access information on the internet.

• Leicester’s Top 5 COVID research studies

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/top-5-covid-research-studies

  One of the top ten Universities in the UK for COVID research has highlighted its top five research projects that have had a global impact.

• World’s first disability hate crime conference will help to tackle Britain’s shameful problem

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/disability-hate-crime

  For the first time ever, victims, academics, support organisations and elements of the criminal justice system will meet to discuss the impact of disability hate crime.

• World-leading science park’s success showcased at festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/space-innovation

  The achievements of the world’s first science and innovation park dedicated to space-related companies came under the spotlight at the Leicestershire Innovation Festival.

• Leicester planetary scientists reveal secret behind Jupiter’s ‘energy crisis’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/08/04/leicester-planetary-scientists-reveal-secret-behind-jupiters-energy-crisis/

  Leicester planetary scientists reveal secret behind Jupiter’s ‘energy crisis’

• Leicester’s cutting-edge research and innovation delights Minister

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/08-research-and-innovation-minister-visit

  Minister Chris Skidmore MP was in Leicester today (Friday 8 March) at the start of British Science Week, visiting the University of Leicester to see first-hand how the University and the region is at the cutting-edge of life sciences and space research and innovation.

• New approach provides potential vaccine and treatment for Alzheimer’s

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/tapas

  A promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer’s disease – and also vaccinate against it – has been developed by a team of UK and German scientists.