Search
-
Social media to create earlywarning systems to combat future disasters
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/social-media-to-create-2018early-warning-systems2019-to-combat-future-disasters
Researchers from the Department of Media and Communication are examining how communities can use social media to improve their resilience to both human-made and natural disasters – such as the recent Nepal earthquake or the sinking of ships that left thousands...
-
Event to explore implications of global migration
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/event-to-explore-implications-of-global-migration
Our University is hosting an evening of talks, discussions, a book launch and live music drawing on the work of internationally acclaimed artists Lucy + Jorge Orta and their specific interest in migration.
-
Winners of short story competition celebrate their success
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/winners-of-short-story-competition-celebrate-their-success
The winners of the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning Short Story Competition 2015 have been announced. David Marriott took the £300 first prize in the adult writers’ category. Isabella Guzy-Kirkden won the junior competition prize of £100.
-
Community event raises awareness of prostate cancers silent symptoms
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/community-event-raises-awareness-of-prostate-cancers-silent-symptoms
A Leicester health campaigner has called for men to get checked out for prostate cancer because of its “silent symptoms” – after a high-profile journalist was diagnosed with the condition.
-
Gentrification expert discusses 'managed decline' of estates for BBC
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/gentrification-expert-discusses-2018managed-decline2019-of-estates-for-bbc
The managed decline of inner-city social housing Loretta Lees, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester, comments on councils' increasingly common policy of managed decline of inner-city estates ahead of regeneration.
-
Year in industry
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/study/undergraduate/year-in-industry
A year in industry involves taking a year of full-time work between your second and third year of study.
-
Support and progression
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/study/research-degrees/support-progression
Our PhD Directors provide pastoral support to you throughout the duration of your course. Find out how we will support you and monitor your progression during a research degree at the University of Leicester School of Business.
-
How to apply
https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/how-to-apply
Applications are made through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) for entry to full-time undergraduate degrees. Learn about when and how to apply.
-
Jane the T-rex
https://le.ac.uk/gge/outreach/jane-trex
Find out more about Jane, Geology's resident juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex at the University of Leicester.
-
Anna scores soughtafter opportunity to work within beating heart of the television industry
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/researcher-scores-sought-after-opportunity-to-work-within-2018beating-heart2019-of-the-television-industry
PhD researcher Anna McKay from our School of History, Politics and International Relations will be working within the ‘beating heart’ of the television industry as one of only six emerging academics from across the UK to be selected to take part in the first ‘TV PhD’...