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• Leicester staff celebrate victory for the blues

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-staff-celebrate-victory-for-the-blues

  Not content with showing their true-blue colours in advance of Leicester City Football club’s arguably season-clinching game on Sunday, our staff are celebrating the local football heroes’ confirmed Premier League victory on Monday in a variety of ways.

• Leicester Research Archive

  https://le.ac.uk/library/research-support/open-research/leicester-research-archive

  How to use the Leicester Research Archive to make your research publications, data and theses available online and ensure long-term preservation.

• The secret peacemaker: A quiet leader of our time

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/05/24/the-secret-peacemaker-a-quiet-leader-of-our-time/

  Posted by mstein in School of Business Blog on May 24, 2017 Professor Mark Stein of the School of Business mourns the key intermediary between the British government and the IRA with Leicester connections, who has died aged 80.

• Talking points a range of topics tackled by academics this week

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/wolf-hall-thomas-more-and-the-turks

  Professor Norman Housley from the School of History has written an article about the BBC drama 'Wolf Hall', which portrays aspects of Tudor life, including diction, with what he describes as 'outstanding' historical accuracy.

• Videos highlight Leicesters leading space expertise

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/videos-highlight-leicesters-leading-space-expertise-at-great-festival

  Leicester’s leading expertise in cutting-edge space research has been showcased in a series of videos captured during the GREAT Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong, which is organised by the UK’s Department for International Trade and took place in March of this year.

• University of Leicester alumnus amongst ten Windrush pioneers to have portrait commissioned by the King

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/windrush-geoff

  Sir Godfrey ‘Geoff’ Palmer OBE is one of ten pioneering members of the Windrush Generation who have had portraits commissioned by King Charles III to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush.

• Is working overtime bad for you? Some interesting evidence from Higher education.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/is-working-overtime-bad-for-you-some-interesting-evidence-from-higher-education/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 This article mentioned in  the Times Higher  last week had the headline Do some overtime (but not too much) It is based on this article: Fontinha, R., Easton, S., & Van Laar, D.

• The solvents solving our gold challenges

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/the-solvents-solving-our-gold-challenges

  Work in our Departments of Geology and Chemistry to develop safer and greener ways to process gold has been featured on the BBC World Service’s Science Hour (from 44m).

• Universities recognised nationally for pioneering research-to-start up accelerator

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/universities-recognised-research-to-start-up-accelerator

  University of Leicester, De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) and Loughborough University in partnership with Leicester Start-Ups are up for an award for their VentureVersity programme

• Public lecture on Myanmar and museums

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/06-myanmar-lecture

  The effect of displacement in Myanmar on material objects is the subject of a public lecture at the University of Leicester on Tuesday 18 February.