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Leicester scientist heads to Westminster
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/leicester-scientist-heads-to-westminster
On Tuesday 13 March, PhD student at our University Katie Raymer will be attending Voice of the Future 2018- a unique event offering young scientists and engineers the opportunity to quiz key political figures at the Houses of Parliament about science policy.
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Leicester team to feature on University Challenge Christmas series
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/university-challenge
As well as providing the 1963-winning team, the University of Leicester has also seen other firsts: in 1974, Sandya Narayansami became the first Indian woman to compete on the show, her team beating St John’s College, Oxford.
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Award-winning students demonstrate their employability to EU experts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/award-winning-students-demonstrate-their-employability-to-eu-experts
Two University of Leicester students have won the second edition of the EU Careers Challenge. Loren Cooper and Jean-Vincent Vallée were part of the winning team that were tasked with solving Europe’s challenges around the Digital Agenda.
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Student volunteer dishes out positivity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/student-volunteer-dishes-out-positivity
Izzy Evans, a Psychology with cognitive neuroscience student at Leicester, has spent the past two years volunteering with local charity The Bridge to offer a helping hand in the kitchen- an experience that she says has been ‘invaluable’ to her.
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Students awarded further funding to develop innovative mobile app
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/museum-studies-master2019s-students-awarded-further-funding-to-develop-innovative-mobile-app
A team from the University of Leicester has been announced as Summer of Student Innovation winners, bagging funding and support develop their edtech idea in collaboration with Jisc – a UK higher, further education and skills sectors’ not-for-profit organisation for digital...
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The forgotten success of penal transportation reform in late Imperial Russia: the lowering of prison
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/08/the-forgotten-success-of-penal-transportation-reform-in-late-imperial-russia-the-lowering-of-prisoner-mortality-in-the-transfer-system-1885-1915/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 8, 2016 By Mikhail Nakonechny . The late Imperial Russian prison and exile system is almost unequivocally considered to be the traditional embodiment of brutality, institutional inhumanity and injustice.
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MA Museum Studies Placement in Special Collections, Weeks 5-6
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/08/22/ma-museum-studies-placement-in-special-collections-weeks-5-6/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on August 22, 2018 Guest post from Yineng Zhu, Andrew Permain and Joe Searle, MA Museum Studies students working with the Archives & Special Collections team. Yineng Hello, I’m Yineng Zhu.
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Senate regulation 3: Regulations governing fees
https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-3
Downloadable version of Senate Regulation 3 (PDF, 229KB) General 3.1 These regulations apply to all students registered at the University on a taught programme of study, and to associate students registered on one or more modules.
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Your arrival
https://le.ac.uk/study/welcome/your-arrival
Get ready to start enjoying everything the University and the city have to offer by making sure you’ve completed the final formalities.
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Deputy Labour leader cites University of Leicester research in speech at Co-Operative Party economy conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/deputy-labour-leader-cites-university-of-leicester-research-in-speech-at-co-operative-party-economy-conference
Leicester academics were cited in a speech given by Tom Watson, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, at the Co-Operative Party economy conference on 28 January.