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• Branding expert brings entrepreneurial insights to Leicester students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/branding-expert-entrepreneurial-insights-students-770

  University of Leicester has appointed Mark Robinson, co-founder of Creative62, as an Entrepreneur in Residence

• Obituary: Sir Michael Atiyah

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/14-obituary-sir-michael-atiyah

  Sir Michael Atiyah, who was widely regarded as Britain’s greatest mathematician, has died aged 89. Sir Michael was Chancellor of the University of Leicester between 1995 and 2005.

• His Honour David Brunning

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/david-brunning

  The University has learned, with sadness, of the death of David Brunning, a former member of Council and life member of the University Court. David Brunning was born on 10 April 1943. He was a pupil at Burton upon Trent Grammar School.

• Academic comments on the rise of kids activities being marketed to adults

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/academic-comments-on-the-rise-of-kids2019-activities-being-marketed-to-adults

  Dr Jane Pilcher from our School of Media, Communication and Sociology has been featured in an article for The Guardian discussing why kids’ activities – such as bouncy castles and ballpits - are now being marketed to grown men and women.

• 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...

• 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.

• 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...

• 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.

• Music scholarships awarded to talented students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/11-music-scholarships

  Attenborough Arts Centre is proud to support University of Leicester students through the Alumni and Philharmonia Scholarship scheme.