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University provides opportunity for children to win photograph taken from space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/university-provides-opportunity-for-children-to-win-photograph-taken-from-space
Children around the UK are invited to enter a competition organised by the University's National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), the UK’s leading research centre for studying our planet using observations from satellites in space, to win a large photograph of Earth...
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University of Leicester professor speaks to Government Select Committee about alternative to antibiotics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/martha-clokie
University of Leicester’s Professor of Microbiology Martha Clokie, spoke to MPs about the potential use of phages to fight bacterial infections.
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Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi conferred University of Leicester honorary professorship
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/sheikha-bodour-al-qasimi-conferred-university-of-leicester-honorary-professorship
Her Excellency Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi awarded University of Leicester honorary professorship for global impact in literacy, culture, and women’s empowerment.
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News and events
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/new-approaches-to-the-material-world/arch-i-scan/news-and-events
Arch-I-Scan Colloquium and Workshop – Artificial Intelligence and Pottery Identification and Analyses College Court, Leicester Thursday- Friday 20th-21st April 2023 Marking the approaching end of the Arch-I-Scan project, this colloquium provided a great occasion to...
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Top Hat for in-class polling and out-of-class quizzes
https://le.ac.uk/medicine/teaching/top-hat
What is Top Hat? Top Hat is a web-based student response system that stores and marks responses in student accounts as well as enable interactive learning materials to be developed for use before, during and after a teaching session whether it is a lecture, seminar or group...
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The Black British Women Writers website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/10/18/the-black-british-women-writers-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2021 This resource seeks to stimulate the discussion of the literary art of women writers of African and African-Caribbean descent living in Britain from 19th century onwards.
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Funding for new research centre to investigate effect of environmental exposures on health
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/january/27-nihr-funding
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has granted a £1 million development award to the University of Leicester to create a new pioneering national research centre to investigate the effect of environmental exposures on health.
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University of Leicester welcomes extra guidelines to ensure best international student experience
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/uk-agent
Ensuring international students enjoy the best experience possible when they arrive to study in the UK has led to the University of Leicester being one of the first to formally sign up to the new UK Agent Quality Framework.
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Leading University heart professor recognised as top global researcher
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/leading-university-heart-professor-recognised-as-top-global-researcher
The “valuable and significant” work of a University heart professor has won him recognition as one of the world’s most influential scientists.
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Opportunities for students to de-stress during exam period
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/more-opportunities-for-students-to-de-stress-during-exam-period
It's exam period again and the Students' Union has organised another week of activities with the sole intention of giving students the best chance to relax and ease the tension.