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• 2026 vision: Leicester launches Optometry degree

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/optometry-degree-leicester-course

  The University of Leicester is pleased to announce that its new four-year Optometry degree has been given permission to recruit students by the General Optical Council.

• New editor for only journal dedicated to British immigration law

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/jianl

  A University of Leicester expert in migrants’ rights and immigration law has been appointed editor of a highly-regarded international journal.

• Book on post-apartheid South Africa by Leicester academic published

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/book-on-post-apartheid-south-africa-by-leicester-academic-published

  Lecturer and South Africa specialist from our University Dr James Hamill has published a new book, Africa’s Lost Leader: South Africa’s Continental Role Since Apartheid.

• Student research stories featured by the BBC

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/student-research-stories-featured-by-the-bbc

  Two student-led studies published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics run by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science have been featured on the BBC's '10 things we didn't know last week', which highlights research about interesting and...

• The happy ending to the story of ambitious project to refurbish iconic Engineering Building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/the-2018happy-ending2019-to-the-story-of-ambitious-project-to-refurbish-iconic-engineering-building

  The Herculean task of replacing the iconic roof of one the world’s most revered pieces of 20th-century architecture has been captured on the page by the lead designer of the project.

• Research

  https://le.ac.uk/film/research

  Academic staff in Film Studies have research strengths in a number of key areas. We have a proven track record of researching and publishing through the most respected publishers and journals, and actively pursue new ways of conducting and disseminating our research.

• Sociology student awarded UN internship in Indonesia

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/sociology-student-awarded-un-internship-in-indonesia

  Student Cindy Colondam, who is due to start her second year studying Sociology, has been working as an intern for the United Nations (UN) as part of their UN Global Pulse initiative in Jakarta, Indonesia over the summer.

• Fossil fuel burning leaves its mark in Mediterranean corals

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/coral-pollutant

  New study involving the University of Leicester identifies carbon particles emitted by burning fossil fuels embedded in corals

• Leicester academic to provide top-level expert forensic advice

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/leicester-academic-to-provide-top-level-expert-forensic-advice

  Professor Mark Jobling, of the Department of Genetics & Genome Biology, has been appointed as one of seven new members of the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG; https://www.gov.

• Pedagogy and the COVID-19 Pandemic; the Covid in Cartoons project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/01/11/pedagogy-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-the-covid-in-cartoons-project/

  Presentation of the AHRC-funded Covid in Cartoons project, a collaboration between University of Leicester, Shout Out UK and Cartooning for Peace.