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Life-saving equipment made publicly available
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/life-saving-equipment-made-publicly-available
Our University has installed its first community public access defibrillators (cpads) which are available for use by staff, students and members of the public in an emergency.
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Summer schools
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/summer-schools
Tenth ECORD Summer School: Downhole Logging for Marine Geoscience Location: University of Leicester campus Dates: 8-14 August 2026 Our Summer School introduces the interpretation and applications of downhole logs and physical property data primarily from the...
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Volcanoes, Tectonics and Mineral Resources
https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/solid-earth/volcanoes
Volcanology research investigates the evolution of the Earth’s crust and its interrelationships with the mantle and atmosphere/ocean system.
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Five reasons why we need to look at childbirth and the media
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/five-reasons-why-we-need-to-look-at-childbirth-and-the-media
An academic from our University has discussed ways in which the media shapes society’s perceptions, anxieties and emotions arising out of birth.
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Swirlonic super particles baffle physicists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/swirlonic
In recent years, active, self-propelled particles have received growing interest amongst the scientific community. Examples of active particles and their systems are numerous and very diverse, ranging from bacterium films to flocks of birds or human crowds.
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Stephen Wood
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/stephen_wood/
Professor of Management
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Reflections on my Professional Fellowship: Part One
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/10/11/reflections-on-my-professional-fellowship-part-one/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on October 11, 2024 My name is Sarah Wood and I work as the Assistant Archivist for the University of Leicester.
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Leicester academic discusses assisted suicide legislation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-academic-discusses-assisted-suicide-legislation
Dr Clark Hobson, from the University's School of Law, has written an article for BioEdge which examines the possibility of the blanket ban on assisted suicide in the UK being overturned. In the article for BioEdge, Dr Hobson said: "Noel Conway is 67 years old.
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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...
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Entrepreneurship and SMEs
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/finance-governance-and-enterprise/entrepreneurship-and-smes
The strength of the SME sector is often perceived as a barometer of a country's economic health.