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Leicester academic heads judging panel to land robot on the moon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/leicester-academic-heads-judging-panel-to-land-robot-on-the-moon
An academic from our University has been elected to Chair a judging panel in a global $30 million prize competition to land a robot on the moon.
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Our academics present at British Science Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/our-academics-present-at-british-science-festival
Researchers have revealed a revolutionary DNA swab they predict will increase prosecutions of sexual violence perpetrators on a global scale.
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Colombias worldleading approach to higher education and research affords opportunities for UK academics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/colombias-world-leading-approach-to-higher-education-and-research-affords-opportunities-for-uk-academics
Professor Paul van Gardingen (pictured), Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International and Development Research at our University, was part of a delegation of academics working at institutions across the UK recently sent to Colombia to build research links in the Latin...
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Easter eggs hot cross buns and the microorganisms that help create them
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/easter-eggs-hot-cross-buns-and-the-microorganisms-that-help-create-them
With supermarket shelves filled with chocolate at this time of year, little thought goes into how the humble cocoa bean eventually becomes the popular Easter egg.
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2025
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/spring-seminar-series/archive/2025
2025 Spring Seminar Series: Global Victorians The Purloined Heart: Intertextuality Between Dickens and Poe 19 February Speaker: Dr Katie Bell (Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester) Online Victorian Statumania: Poets and Public Monuments 26...
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Nihongo Commons (Level 4+)
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/japanese/level-4-plus-nihongo-commons
Upper-intermediate Japanese Course at Leicester University
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) short courses
https://le.ac.uk/geology/study/short-courses
Find out about our one year Postgraduate Certificate in Quarry Management and Operations part-time course.
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What our students say
https://le.ac.uk/geology/study/undergraduate/our-students
Hear from some of our students as they talk about their experiences as undergraduate students in Geology at Leicester.
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Outreach
https://le.ac.uk/english/outreach
Staff in English at the University of Leicester are committed to presenting their work outside Higher Education, and to discussing research ideas beyond the university. Find out about our talks, events, public readings, local education projects and more.
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Our history
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/about/history
The Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester - the first of its kind - was founded in 1966 by Raymond Singleton, with the intention of developing expertise in all areas of the academic study and applied profession of museums and heritage.