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Attenborough Arts announces new partnership with the British Museum
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/aac-british-museum
The University of Leicester’s Attenborough Arts Centre has been named today as one of the British Museum’s key cultural partners for 2021, and will be collaborating on a new innovative national programme for young people named Where we are… Working in partnership with...
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Mr Duncan Cloud (1930-2020)
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/duncan-cloud
The University community was saddened to learn of the loss, on 24 June 2020, of one of its most senior members and a major figure in its history. John Duncan Cloud (MA Oxford, B.Litt.
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Motor Cities
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/motor-cities
Leverhulme Research Project Grant (£154,757) October 2011-September 2014 Professor Simon Gunn and Dr Susan Townsend (University of Nottingham) In the last half century the automobile has transformed life in cities across much of the globe, offering unprecedented freedom...
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University of Leicester supports Big Difference Stand Up Challenge
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/stand-up-challenge
Big Difference are delighted to announce the support of the University of Leicester as an Associate Partner of the Stand Up Challenge 2021.
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The Convict Hulks of Bermuda
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/06/26/the-convict-hulks-of-bermuda/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 26, 2014 I have long been interested in Bermuda. Like the island that I studied for my PhD thesis, Mauritius, it has no indigenous population.
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New Fungal Spore Calendar helps allergy and asthma sufferers plan for better health
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/fungal-calendar
Leicester researchers have developed England’s first comprehensive fungal spore calendar—a valuable new tool designed to help allergy and asthma patients better manage symptoms through seasonal awareness
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New approach to coronavirus testing could curb spread of virus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/28-coronavirus-masks
Coronavirus masks man in white coat in a lab holding a mask|A new approach to testing for coronavirus (COVID19) is to be trialled by researchers here at the University of Leicester, which could determine whether a person is infectious or not – even before symptoms are present.
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Seventeen novels in seventeen years Leicester alumna Adele Parks to share her journey to the bestsellers list
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/seventeen-novels-in-seventeen-years-leicester-alumna-adele-parks-to-share-her-journey-to-the-bestsellers-list
Leicester alumna and author of seventeen bestselling novels Adele Parks will be speaking at Literary Leicester on Wednesday 15 November.
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Research Staff and Early Career Researchers
https://le.ac.uk/research/doctoral-college/research-staff
Information on development opportunities for staff, engagement and impact, research effectiveness, quantitative skills, qualitative skills and supporting postgraduate researchers.
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University of Leicester staff blog School of English BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz visits the Joe Or
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/26/bbc-arts-editor-will-gompertz-visits-the-joe-orton-archive/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on June 26, 2014 The BBC’s chief Arts Editor Will Gompertz visited the University on 25 June to make a radio feature on the Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.