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New Year’s Honours for members of University community
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/02-new-years-honours
Members of the University community have been recognised in the Queen's New Year's Honours list
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Expert opinions cover the Stoke byelection rocks and Indian banknotes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/expert-opinions-cover-trump-rocks-an-indian-banknotes
Inès Hassen, Researcher at the Centre for Urban History and Teaching Fellow in French Studies, discusses how the cultural and economic history of Leicester serves as a beneficial reference in a world in need of hope.
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New Years Honours University links
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-years-honours-university-links
Members of our University have again been recognised in The Queen’s New Year’s Honours. Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, who discovered genetic fingerprinting at this University, has been has been appointed as a Companion of Honour (CH).
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Incentives alone won’t bring gender equality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/10/01/incentives-alone-wont-bring-gender-equality/
Posted by Doris Ruth Eikhof in School of Business Blog on October 1, 2014 Doris Ruth Eikhof*, Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment at the School, underlines why there’s so much more to the problem of gender inequality than the task of getting the incentives right Those...
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Postcards from the Universe: Blues for the Red Planet
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/07/01/postcards-from-the-universe-blues-for-the-red-planet/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 1 July 2020 Dr.
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Equality and Diversity: an example of Socratic Questioning, University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/11/29/equality-and-diversity-an-example-of-socratic-questioning/
Socratic Questioning is a useful tool to further develop a critical analysis. Here it is used to consider how Equality and Diversity might be considered in a learning and teaching context.
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The television: an electronic babysitter for the incarcerated?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/television
Read the article "The television: an electronic babysitter for the incarcerated?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Frederick and Mary Attenborough
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/attenboroughs/frederick-and-mary
Frederick was our second Principal and under his leadership it expanded rapidly. He, and his wife Mary, lived on the campus with their sons Richard, David and John.
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Major heart attack study reveals ‘survival paradox’: Frail men at higher risk of death than women despite better treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/heart-attack-frailty-sex-leicester
Pioneering research from the University of Leicester and NIHR challenges the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to heart attack care, adding critical nuance to the debate on sex disparities
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Cybersecurity UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/cybersecurity-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 Recently the UK government revealed research on the most hacked passwords. You can download the top 100,000 from the National Cyber research centre.