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  • F.L. Attenborough Lecture: Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society

    Celebrating the University of Leicester’s Centenary 21 February 2022 Good evening everyone. It is an honour and a privilege to stand before you today to deliver the F L Attenborough Lecture on Celebrating the University of Leicester’s Centenary.

  • Renowned street artist creates ghostimage of famous playwright Joe Orton in library

    A renowned street artist has spray-painted a ‘ghost image’ of playwright Joe Orton in our Library – which he hopes will encourage people to reflect on the legacy of the writer.

  • Ministers and Midlands universities launch £3m campaign to attract global R&D investment and drive economic growth

    University of Leicester joins seventeen universities from the Midlands in launching the Invest in UK University R&D – Midlands Campaign to drive investment into the region

  • Messages about Black History Month

    Hear more about Black History Month at Leicester from our Vice-Chancellor and Students' Liberation Officer.

  • Funding programme launched by Childrens cancer charity based at Leicester

    A national childhood cancer charity based at our University is launching a new funding programme for research into rare and under-funded cancers affecting children – including the UK’s only dedicated fund to support research into the health of cancer survivors.

  • Partnership to equip ethnically diverse sports leaders of the future

    Leicester City’s Premier League-winning captain Wes Morgan, now part of the Premier League’s Advisory Board on ethnically diverse communities, was also on hand to meet the students, and to explain an athlete’s role in promoting diversity and inclusion.

  • Glimpses of the young David Attenborough in the University Archives

    Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 9, 2016 It’s well known that David and Richard Attenborough, along with their brother John, spent part of their early lives living on the campus of what was then University College, Leicester.

  • Censoring Academics works well for Publishers

    Posted by Ken Weir in School of Business Blog on June 18, 2014 Kenneth Weir, Lecturer in Accountancy at the School, examines the popularity of a controversial article which he, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley , recently published (about publishing) In 2012, the...

  • COP26: Funding boost for new space mission to monitor carbon

    Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 5 November 2021 Leicester researchers will contribute to a new joint British and French space mission dedicated to monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide – the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change.

  • Clearing 2022: Brilliant Bianca grasps second chance at university in Leicester

    Psychology graduate Bianca Semczuk says choosing Leicester through Clearing “couldn’t have been a better decision”. Bianca, 26, had a first taste of university life in Poland, studying International Relations in Warsaw.

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