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Cancer expert receives £100,000 donation towards his vital work
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/mick-may-mesothelioma-fennell
A cancer expert who prolonged the life of the inspirational author and charity founder, Mick May, has received a £100,000 donation to help continue his ground breaking work at the university of Leicester.
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Leicester scientist lends expertise to new Jack the Ripper book
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-scientist-lends-expertise-to-new-jack-the-ripper-book
Bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell is due to release Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert on 28 February, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world’s most chilling cases of serial murder—and the police force that failed to solve it.
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Genetic switch discovery could help to prevent symptoms of Parkinsons disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/genetic-switch-discovery-could-help-to-prevent-symptoms-of-parkinsons-disease
A genetic ‘switch’ has been discovered by MRC researchers at our University which could help to prevent or delay the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
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A Scholarly Edition of Richard Baxters Reliquiae Baxterianae
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/a-scholarly-edition-of-richard-baxters-reliquiae-baxterianae
AHRC Research Grant September 2011-August 2014 Professor John Coffey Richard Baxter’s 800-page folio Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696) is an unrivalled primary source for early modern historical, ecclesiastical, cultural and literary studies.
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Leicester expert in inclusive design recognised in Top 50 Women in Engineering awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/june/expert-inclusive-design-top-50-women-engineering-awards
Accolade for Dr Manuela Trejo from the University of Leicester School of Engineering recognising powerful role models of women in engineering
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TEDx comes to Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/tedx-comes-to-leicester
Some of Leicester’s best known institutions and organisations are getting behind an inspiring event, which is set to bring some of the Leicester’s best thinkers and community activists to the city this year.
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Suffragan Bishop of Loughborough to speak on ‘Justice, Faith and Belonging in a Changing World’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/03-bishop-guli-talk
The unit for Diversity, Inclusion & Community Engagement (DICE) at the University of Leicester, in conjunction with Leicestershire County Council, is organising a fascinating and free public event on Thursday 10 October for all those interested in the role of faith...
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Turned off at Execution Dock: Thames Scenery in the City of the Gallows. By Richard Ward
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/04/25/turned-off-at-execution-dock-thames-scenery-in-the-city-of-the-gallows-by-richard-ward/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on April 25, 2016 Eighteenth-century London has, with good reason, been called “the city of the gallows”.
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University lights up medical building in support of Baby Loss Awareness Week
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/baby-loss-awareness
As part of the national campaign to highlight the importance of Baby Loss Awareness Week, the University of Leicester’s George Davies Centre, home to many of Leicester’s world-changing health researchers and teaching spaces, will join other national UK landmarks in being lit...
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Arthur Edward Davis (1882-1916)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/11/02/arthur-edward-davis-1882-1916/
Arthur Edward Davis was educated at Mill Hill School, London. He became a cricketer of distinction and played for Leicestershire. In the great War he joined as a Private the 11th Royal Fusiliers and served in France, where he was killed in 1916.