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  • Leicestershire and Rutland County 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...

  • 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...

  • Mandatory training

    Mandatory training is training that all colleagues must undertake because of its practical relevance to them as University employees/workers and as a key part of the University fulfilling its legal and/or compliance obligations.

  • From English sparkling wine to digital protests in China

    In the latest in a series of opinion pieces Drs Sarah Robinson and Elke Weik from the School of Management have written an article for the Management is Too Important Not to Debate blog discussing what makes English sparkling wine so special.

  • Decoy protein injection could stop COVID-19

    Coronavirus image Illustration of coronavirus|Decoy proteins that bind and trap the coronavirus to stop it infecting cells in our bodies are being developed by the University of Leicester.

  • Leicester Symphony Orchestra

    A concert on 23 October 2021 by the Leicester Symphony Orchestra, supported by the University, was a triple celebration. The event marked both the centenaries of both the University, which accepted its first students in 1921, and the LSO, which was founded one year later.

  • The Science of Tolkiens Middleearth

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  • Can Santa Claus see your house from his sleigh?

    Millions of children across the world will be looking up at the night sky on Christmas Eve to get a glimpse of Santa Claus and his reindeer – but what if he could see your house from the sky? Students at the University of Leicester may have found the answer, after calculating...

  • Entrepreneurship and SMEs

    The strength of the SME sector is often perceived as a barometer of a country's economic health.

  • What we know now

    Analysis of the king’s skeleton not only aided its identification but also provided new insights into Richard III’s diet and lifestyle, and what he might have looked like.

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