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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”.

• Working at home is ‘a double-edged sword’, new research reveals

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/home-working

  New research conducted by academics at the Universities of Leicester and Exeter has revealed how working at home can be ‘a double-edged sword’.

• Leicester announces international campus

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-announces-international-campus

  The University of Leicester’s foreign campus in China is set to open in September and will offer dual degrees for UK students spending one year in China as well as for Chinese students studying in Dalian.

• Student midwife shortlisted for prestigious award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/rcm-awards

  A student midwife, who was inspired to take up the profession because of her own childbirth experiences, is in line for a prestigious award

• Leading Leicester cardiologists nominated for British Heart Foundation Heart Hero award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leading-leicester-cardiologists-nominated-for-british-heart-foundation-2018heart-hero2019-award

  Two leading Leicester doctors who have put their “heart and soul” into pioneering medical research have been nominated for a top regional award later this year.

• The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 1: forgetting what we know about knowledge.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-1-forgetting-what-we-know-about-knowledge/

  Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 One of the many poorly-framed, point-missing ‘debates’ that regularly plague contemporary education goes something like this: ‘should education be focused primarily on...

• Student and graduate taking on 3100 mile trek across the USA pass halfway mark

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/student-and-graduate-taking-on-3-100-mile-trek-across-the-usa-pass-halfway-mark

  Two amateur hikers who are taking on the challenge of a trek across the United States have spoken about their experience so far as they enter Wyoming – the halfway point of their journey.

• University of Leicester launches philanthropic campaign and signs historic partnership in Canada

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/university-leicester-launches-philanthropic-campaign-historic-partnership-canada

  A Leicester delegation travelled to Canada to launch the 2121: Founders of the Future campaign, which aims to raise £100m.

• Workplace menopause study by Leicester academics finds women feel they need to cope alone

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/workplace-menopause-study-by-leicester-experts-finds-2018women-feel-they-need-to-cope-alone2019

  A call for more menopause-friendly workplaces is made in a new Government report prepared by a team from our University.

• Senate

  https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/senate

  Senate is concerned with directing and regulating the academic life of the University, as the University’s principal ‘academic board’ and thereby custodian of the institution’s academic integrity.