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• Sensory Reading: New Approaches to Teaching and Learning GCSE English Literature

  https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/sensory-reading

  Led by Professor Phil Shaw and Dr Scott Freer in the Department of English, ‘Sensory Reading’ aims to develop outreach opportunities arising from Phil Shaw’s AHRC Leadership Fellow project, Wordsworth 2020.

• MIXS: studying Mercury in detail

  https://le.ac.uk/bepicolombo/mixs

  BepiColombo carries two X-ray spectrometers: MIXS (Mercury Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer) and SIXS (Solar Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer). No-one has sent an imaging X-ray telescope to any planetary body before so this is ground-breaking science.

• Leicester historians guest edit Centenary journal edition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/howard-journal

  Leading historians from the University of Leicester have guest edited a special Centenary issue of the prestigious Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.

• Knowing where to look

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/knowing-where-to-look

  Whilst nothing of the friary remains above ground today, its site has never actually been lost, despite one early map of Leicester, the 1610 Speed map, getting its location wrong.

• Transformative exhibition ‘Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles’ arriving in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/attenborough-arts-centre-material-worlds

  Artists featured in the exhibition include Caroline Achaintre, Jonathan Baldock, Phyllida Barlow, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Tenant of Culture, Alexandre da Cunha, Tonico Lemos Auad, Paul Maheke, Anna Perach, Yelena Popova, Yinka Shonibare, Rae-Yen Song, and Zadie Xa.

• Regulations governing professional Doctorate programmes: Boards of examiners for assessed components excluding the Thesis

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-9/sr9-appendix-3/sr9-a3-part-7-boards-of-examiners

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• Political journalism expert explains miners’ strike significance on BBC show

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/miners-strike

  A 35-year career in political journalism led to a University of Leicester academic being called on to explain the significance of the 1984-5 miners’ strike to BBC radio listeners.

• University Chancellor volunteers for medical study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/maggie

  A University of Leicester study seeking to discover the effect type 2 diabetes has on the heart has enrolled its Chancellor, Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, as its latest healthy volunteer participant.

• Pterosaurs undergo dental examination to reveal clues about diets and lifestyles

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/pterosaur-ecology

  Microscopic analysis of the teeth of pterosaurs has revealed new insights into the diets and behaviours of Earth’s earliest flying reptiles.

• Policing in multicultural cities to be explored

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/policing-in-multicultural-cities-to-be-explored

  Policing in multicultural cities will come under the spotlight during a public event at our University at 6pm on Monday 3 July.