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• History and Security Sector Reform: Crime and Punishment in British Colonial Guyana, 1814-1966

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/history-and-security-sector-reform

  Over the past two years there has been a general shift in models of incarceration in the former British colony of Guyana, from punishment (punitive measures) to correction and rehabilitation (via training and education).

• Leicester PhD student sets her sights on success thanks to award for telescope research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/phd-student-award-telescope-research

  Natasha Carr from the University of Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy has received the Florence and Johnstone Stoney Award from the British Federation of Women Graduates

• Chancellor

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

  Award-winning space scientist, broadcaster and author, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, joined the University of Leicester as Chancellor on 1 March 2023.

• Leicester leads major breakthrough in asbestos linked cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/confirm

  A University of Leicester led team has made a major breakthrough in treating mesothelioma, an aggressive form of cancer linked to breathing in asbestos, which could help add years to patients’ lives.

• Schools are key to raising aspirations for next generation of doctors

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/schools-are-key-to-raising-aspirations-for-next-generation-of-doctors

  Teachers and careers advisers are key to improving access to the medical profession for young people in some of the country’s most socially disadvantaged areas – but universities must reach out to give them the support that they need, says the new Head of our Medical School.

• Midlands commission highlights action to address health and care inequalities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/midlands-commission-healthcare-inequalities

  Organisations across the Midlands and leading national health charities are collectively launching a policy commission which has the potential to transform the health and care of people across the region by addressing health and care inequalities

• The Anthropocene Leicester scientists respond to criticisms of new geological epoch

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/the-anthropocene-leicester-scientists-respond-to-criticisms-of-new-geological-epoch

  A team of academics from our University has responded to criticisms of the proposal to formalise a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene.

• Bake Off and Gardeners’ World stars top the bill at Leicester festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/bake-off-gardeners-world-stars-leicester-festival

  Stars from Gardeners’ World and The Great British Bake Off top the bill of a family friendly festival taking place in Leicester.

• Getting the Richard III discovery team back together 10 years on

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/richard-iii-podcast

  The team behind the discovery and identification of the remains of King Richard III has reunited for a podcast series.

• 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.