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Health Minister praises ‘fantastic Medical School’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/ed-argar-visit
Charwood MP Ed Argar highlights partnership approach as key to amazing work at Leicester.
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Female genital mutilation seeking alternative rites of passage
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/female-genital-mutilation-seeking-2018alternative-rites-of-passage2019
The potential of a method of replacing female genital mutilation as an initiation into womanhood with culturally sensitive alternatives is to be explored.
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Radiography lecturer awarded MBE for services to forensic investigation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/mbe
Radiography senior lecturer Dr Claire Robinson has been awarded an MBE for services to forensic investigation as part of the King’s Birthday Honours
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Citys rocket tower to become beacon for students for Clearing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/city2019s-rocket-tower-to-become-beacon-for-students-for-clearing
Our University is beaming out a message to A-level students across Leicester – and it’s 25 metres tall! The National Space Centre, a prominent landmark in the Leicester landscape, will become a beacon for Leicester’s A-level students celebrating their results as it displays a...
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Preparing the king for reburial
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/reinterring/preparing-for-reburial
The team felt that Richard III’s burial container should be made using traditional craft methods, and all materials should be sourced from the British Isles, should be natural, and should have been readily available in the medieval period.
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UK climate instruments to measure fluctuations in greenhouse gas levels
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/uk-climate-instruments-hitch-a-ride-on-nasa2019s-global-hawk
Two cutting-edge science instruments developed by UK researchers have taken to the skies aboard NASA’s Global Hawk research aircraft for the first time.
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Space students to convene at University of Leicester for national conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/space-student-conference
UK Students for the Exploration and Development of Space to hold the National Student Space Conference on 1-2 March, hosted by University of Leicester’s Astronomy and Rocketry Society
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acarajé diaries day 5 – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/06/29/acaraje-diaries-day-5/
Project co-investigator Ana Martins describes her experiences researching acarajé in Bahia, Brazil.
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Philip Larkins secret selfies
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/philip-larkins-secret-selfies
For the first time, photographs taken by the poet Philip Larkin have been collected together from thousands held by the Larkin archive in Hull. Larkin had a long history with the University.
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Awful Things Began to Happen: Rapid Change of Ainu Homeland and Convict Labour as Seen by the Ainu,
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/01/27/awful-things-began-to-happen-rapid-change-of-ainu-homeland-and-convict-labour-as-seen-by-the-ainu-by-minako-sakata/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on January 27, 2015 The Kamikawa region is one of areas that today still has relatively a large population of the Ainu.