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• University of Leicester marks anniversary of arrival of Ugandan Asians

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/uganda-lecture

  University of Leicester will host a public lecture to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Ugandan Asians to the city. The lecture, Migration and the making of Leicester will take place on Thursday, 15 September at 6.

• Exposure to air pollution in pregnancy and early life has important impacts on lung function in early childhood

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/27-pollution-during-pregnancy

  New research by the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability (CESH) at the University of Leicester indicates that exposure to air pollution from road traffic as early as the first trimester of pregnancy and in early life is associated with small but significant...

• From black holes to ancient fossils innovative images highlight University research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/from-black-holes-to-ancient-fossils-innovative-images-highlight-university-research

  The winners of this year’s Images of Research exhibition have been announced, highlighting some of the key research innovations currently taking place from across our academic departments.

• The White Boffin's Burden

  https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/commissions/white-boffin-burden

  Find out more about the Centre for New Writing's commissioned piece which looks into the perceptions of academics and research in ODA (official development assistance) countries vs academics and research in Britain.

• Director appointed to lead new Institute for Policy

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/institute-policy

  The University of Leicester has appointed Professor Neil Chakraborti as the founding Director of the new Institute for Policy at Leicester which will officially launch in early 2024.

• TEDxLeicester to take satellite technology one step beyond

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/tedxleicester-to-take-satellite-technology-2018one-step-beyond2019

  Some of the innovative and cutting-edge applications that satellite technology and its data are being put to will be explored in a TEDxLeicester event in partnership with the University of Leicester and the National Space Centre.

• Risk calculator helps GPs predict which kidney disease patients need hospital care

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/08-kidney-study

  A new study has discovered a way to help GPs predict which people with kidney disease are more likely to go on to develop kidney failure and need dialysis or a kidney transplant in the future.

• Olive Banks (1923-2006)

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/inspirational-women/olive-banks

  “Any attempt to raise feminist arguments was met with indifference if not outright hostility, and the paucity of women academics in general increased my feeling of isolation.

• David Wilson Library changes for 2023-24

  https://le.ac.uk/library/news/david-wilson-library-changes-for-2023-24

  If you're returning to the David Wilson Library for the first time since the Summer, you will notice a few changes to areas of the building for the start of the academic year.

• 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...