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• President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Boyle, to leave the University of Leicester to become Vice-Chancellor of Swansea University 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/05-vc-announcement

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle CBE President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle CBE|Professor Paul Boyle CBE joined the University in October 2014 and is recognised for delivering many new achievements for the University.

• EXILE installation marks fifty years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/fifty-years-since-the-partial-decriminalisation-of-homosexuality-to-coincide-with-bold-new-installation-at-the-national-trust2019s-kingston-lacy-in-dorset

  A bold new installation at the National Trust’s Kingston Lacy in Dorset and involving researchers from our School of Museum Studies marks fifty years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality.

• Adapt

  https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/climate-change/adapt

  Readying our campus for a changing world

• Call for volunteers to help preserve treasure trove of East Midlands history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/sounds-for-the-future

  A £250,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund will help archivists and volunteers secure the future of the East Midlands Oral History Archive.

• Rapid reaction equipment

  https://le.ac.uk/mcb/about/facilities-and-services/biophysical-instrumentation-and-anaerobic-facilities/rapid-reaction-equipment

  Find out about the rapid reaction equipment available in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Leicester. We are home to an Applied Photophysics SX20 Stopped-flow spectrometer and Hi-Tech RQF-63 Rapid Quench flow system.

• Climate change

  https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/climate-change

  Reducing our environmental negative impact Avoid 100 Increasing our positive impact and offsetting Mitigate 200 Readying our campus for a changing world Adapt 250 Teaching and innovating for a better world Positive Impact 300 Climate Change Strategy (PDF, 463kb) Climate...

• Research shows global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/research-shows-global-warming-disaster-could-suffocate-life-on-planet-earth

  Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to research led by Professor Sergei Petrovskii from the Department of Mathematics.

• Report explores the value we place in arts and culture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/report-explores-the-value-we-place-in-arts-and-culture

  Professor Mark Banks (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has written a report for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Cultural Value Project – a two-year project exploring how we think about the value of arts and culture to individuals...

• DNA and family history explored in public lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/dna-and-family-history-explored-in-public-lecture

  The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society will host a lecture on the relationship between surnames and the paternally-inherited Y chromosome from Professor Mark Jobling on Monday 6 March.

• Tobias Gould

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/entrepreneurs-in-residence/tobias-gould

  Tobias is a social entrepreneur and business leader, founder of jerrybottle.com, and co-author of the Government’s flagship ‘Help to Grow’ programme delivered by 50 universities across the UK.