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Study suggests seated upper body physical activity can reduce risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes made worse by sitting
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/study-suggests-seated-upper-body-physical-activity-can-reduce-risk-of-heart-disease-and-type-2-diabetes-made-worse-by-sitting
A new study conducted at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), including researchers from our University, has found that breaking up prolonged bouts of restful sitting with short, frequent bouts of simple seated arm exercises can benefit obese patients at high...
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Digital
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mu7557
Module code: MU7557 This module focuses on how to use digital media purposefully and creatively in museum contexts.
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Digital
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mu7557
Module code: MU7557 This module focuses on how to use digital media purposefully and creatively in museum contexts.
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Digital
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/mu7557
Module code: MU7557 This module focuses on how to use digital media purposefully and creatively in museum contexts.
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New launch date for satellite carrying Leicester-built telescope studying Earth’s ‘magnetic shield’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/launch-satellite-telescope-earth-magnetic-shield
Scientists at Space Park Leicester led development of the Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), due to launch from French Guiana on Tuesday 19 May
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New study to explore how personalised drug doses could improve quality of life for people with secondary breast cancer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/breast-cancer-drug-doses-leicester
A new study by a Leicester researcher will explore how people with incurable secondary (or metastatic) breast cancer experience treatment side effects, and whether personalised drug doses could help improve their quality of life
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Articulate
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/articulate
In 2008, the National Gallery commissioned RCMG to evaluate the second phase of Articulate, their secondary school literacy programme.
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/heritage-and-culture/research
Research centres in the School of Heritage and Culture, University of Leicester
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HumanKind
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/humankind
We are looking afresh at Calke Abbey’s past, reassessing the stories told about this place and exploring their potential to foster more meaningful connections.
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Stephen Fry reveals previously untold LGBTQ history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/stephen-fry-reveals-previously-untold-lgbtq-history
Our University is working with the National Trust is celebrating LGBTQ heritage, to reveal new information about Felbrigg Hall’s last squire, Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer.