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• Four-midable – Times Uni of the Year shortlisting is Leicester’s fourth accolade in September

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/times

  The University of Leicester has been shortlisted for The Times and The Sunday Times University of The Year 2025, the fourth accolade it has received in recent weeks.

• World’s first picture of the molecular machinery that makes cilia beat

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/cilia

  A picture of the structures that power human cilia – the tiny, hairlike projections that line our airways, has been produced by scientists for the first time.

• Bookings open for the University of Leicester’s space CPD course

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/space-park-cpd-course

  Fundamentals of Space Short Courses now open for bookings

• University of Leicester launches exhibition celebrating 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/shakespeare

  The University of Leicester is celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio with an exhibition at the David Wilson Library.

• Leicester experts uncover secrets of healthy ageing from the world’s oldest person

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/healthy-ageing-leicester-genome-maria

  Leicester scientists have helped study the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled María Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old

• The Centre for Regional and Local History’s New Library Spaces

  https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/blog/new-library-spaces

  Back in 2021 the Centre for English Local History moved out of Marc Fitch House at 3-5 Salisbury Road, where it had resided since 1988, to a new space on the University’s main campus.

• Leicester’s global standing recognised by rise in world university rankings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/the-world-rankings

  The University of Leicester has been ranked in the top 200 universities in the world following a rigorous assessment by Times Higher Education.

• New research reveals the man behind Samuel Pepys’s love for portraits

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/27-samuel-pepys-portraits

  Samuel Pepys, the Restoration diarist who meticulously documented his life in 1660s London, also documented himself in other ways – through portraits.

• New Institute to bolster research among Leicester’s Health and Care professionals

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/institute-for-health

  A new institute has been launched to radically boost the number of research opportunities available to Leicester’s nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, health scientists and pharmacists

• Zanzibar’s Prison Island: The Prison That Never Was, by Sarah Longair

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/10/23/zanzibars-prison-island-the-prison-that-never-was-by-sarah-longair/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 23, 2014 My initial research on peculiar history of Zanzibar’s so-called Prison Island as part of the Carceral Archipelago project began last year delving into the records in the National Archives and the...