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What is history for?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/04/10/what-is-history-for-thinking-about-forced-migration-and-its-aftermath/
University of Leicester staff blogs convicts penal colonies slavery migration
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The Queer Heritage and Collections Network
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/the-queer-heritage-and-collections-network
The Queer Heritage and Collections Network aims to provide training, networking and peer support to people working with LGBTQ+ histories and collections.
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Another Doctoral Grant success for School of Education
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/another-doctoral-grant-success-for-school-of-education-phd-student
Keke Zhang of the School of Education has been awarded a 2015 TOEFL Doctoral Research Grant for her research into the development and validation of a rating scale for assessing argumentative essays written by Chinese undergraduates in English programmes.
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Research opportunities
https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/space/opportunities
The Space Sector is growing significantly, both nationally and globally. Crucially the role played by the Space Sector in driving other parts of the economy (such as finance, logistics and agriculture) is also set to grow substantially from the circa 15% of GDP today.
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Fragile Earth – our student exhibition 2013
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2013/04/09/fragile-earth-our-student-exhibition-2013/
Posted by Amy Jane Barnes in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 9, 2013 Every year, our campus-based Museum Studies and Art Museum and Gallery Studies students take part in a Design Exercise as part of their Module 3 studies, the last taught component of their masters’...
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School of Biological Sciences
https://le.ac.uk/biological-sciences
The School of Biological Sciences at the University of Leicester is globally recognised for excellence in genetics.
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Difficult Conversations: Air quality experts to discuss ways to clean up the air that we breathe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/difficult-conversations-air-quality
Research experts including a Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government will join a public Q&A exploring the air quality ‘crisis’ being felt across the globe. Air quality is a measure of pollutants and other harmful particulates in the air that we breathe.
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International Women’s Day marked by research leaders
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/international-womens-day-validate-leicester
Andrea Cooper, from the University of Leicester’s School of Biological Sciences, is celebrating the vital work of research network, VALIDATE, as part of International Women’s Day (8 March).
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Scientists home in on a potential Anthropocene Golden Spike in new research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/scientists-home-in-on-a-potential-anthropocene-2018golden-spike2019-in-new-research
The international working group, which includes geologists Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Colin Waters, from our School of Geography, Geology and the Environment and archaeologist Matt Edgeworth has, since 2009, been analysing the case for formalisation of the...
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Leicester-led study to explore mental health and drug use in colonial and post-colonial prisons
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/leicester-study-mental-health-drug-prisons
The University of Leicester has been awarded £3.3m to research drugs and mental health in prison settings globally.