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Trainee doctors in India to bolster their clinical skills with the NHS thanks to landmark initiative
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/trainee-doctors-india-clinical-skills-nhs-landmark-initiative
Doctors in training from India will now be able to continue their training in NHS hospitals in the UK, thanks to a landmark initiative involving the University of Leicester.
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University study will look at harmful air pollution in our homes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/air-pollution-leicester-study-funding
Researchers from the University of Leicester have been awarded £2 million to investigate how harmful particles in the air inside our homes affect the breathing and lung health of both children and adults
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About
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/about/
The Carceral Archipelago is a €1.5m European Research Council funded project, running from 2013-18. Directed by Professor Clare Anderson, a team of researchers and postgraduate students are working on a global history of penal colonies, 1415-1960.
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Country Reports on Terrorism 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/country-reports-on-terrorism-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 Just released by the US state Department, these annual reports have regional and country reports as well as essays reviewing global trends, terrorism safe havens and terrorist organisations.
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Publications in plain English
https://le.ac.uk/perform/publications/publications-in-plain-english
Plain English summary of: Development of the Personalised Exercise-Rehabilitation FOR people with Multiple long-term conditions (PERFORM) intervention.
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Almost half of NHS workers surveyed have left their role or are considering it
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/nhs-attrition
A significant number of healthcare workers have either left their job or considered changing it because they feel undervalued or have experienced discrimination according to a new study led by the University of Leicester in collaboration with University College London (UCL).
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Clinical trial looks at new ways to treat people living with severe aortic stenosis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/15-bhf-clinical-trial
BHF Clinical Trials medical staff conducting a clinical trial|New research at the University of Leicester, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), could change the way people living with a debilitating heart condition are treated. The £2.
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Cervical cancer research receives important boost
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/cervical-cancer-research-receives-important-boost
A prospective research programme in Leicester to improve the lives of women who have undergone treatment for cervical cancer has received a cash injection.
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Alternative to open heart surgery just as effective for patients with common heart condition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/tavi-results
Leicester researchers have shown, in a ground-breaking study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), how a less invasive heart procedure for a common condition is just as effective as conventional open-heart surgery.
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Air pollution to become worlds leading cause of premature death by 2050
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/air-pollution-to-become-world2019s-leading-cause-of-premature-death-by-2050
Leading experts will be discussing prominent environmental issues - including how air pollution will become the world’s top environmental cause of premature death in the coming decades - at an event on Wednesday 25 November.