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• Leicester Vice-Chancellor responds to Sutton Trust’s Elitist Britain report

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/leicester-vice-chancellor-sutton-trust-elitist-britain-report

  A report published this week explored the educational backgrounds of leading figures across the world of politics, media, business, charity, sport, creative and public sectors.

• Out of this world art needed for iconic space hub’s new mission patch

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/mission-patch

  Space Park Leicester invites inviting children, young people or adults with a love of space to help design their new mission patch.

• Double distinction for Leicester’s ‘Mr Antarctic Volcano’ in New Year Honours

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/john-smellie-polar-medal

  University of Leicester volcanologist Professor John Smellie receives Polar Medal for the second time, from second monarch.

• Unwell or Unwanted? The Mental Health of Western Australia’s Convict Population

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/10/17/unwell-or-unwanted-the-mental-health-of-western-australias-convict-population/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 17, 2016 By Kellie Moss Western Australia welcomed the transportation of convicts in 1850 as a solution to the economic problems which had affected the colony since its foundation as a free settlement in 1829.

• Britain’s Imperial Economy: Power, Wealth and Colonialism 1830-1939

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs3614

  Module code: HS3614 This module explores the relationship between British ‘imperialism’ and the expansion of Britain’s society and economy in the century leading up to 1939.

• Britain’s Imperial Economy: Power, Wealth and Colonialism 1830-1939

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs3614

  Module code: HS3614 This module explores the relationship between British ‘imperialism’ and the expansion of Britain’s society and economy in the century leading up to 1939.

• World’s largest tropical peatlands revealed to be more than 40,000 years old

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/largest-tropical-peatlands-40000-years-old

  New research finds peatland complex in Congo Basin to be more than twice as old as previously thought, expertise from the University of Leicester supported the study

• International Women’s Day – The Gender Pay Gap at the University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/ult/2017/03/08/international-womens-day-the-gender-pay-gap-at-the-university-of-leicester/

  Menu Close University Leadership Team Home International Women’s Day – The Gender Pay Gap at the University of Leicester International Women’s Day – The Gender Pay Gap at the University of Leicester Posted by on March 8, 2017 Today March 8th 2017 marks International Women’s Day.

• £1.8m AHRC funding awarded to Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/ahrc-grant

  Nearly two million pounds of funding from UK Research and Innovation’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has been awarded to the University of Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History (SAAH) to upgrade its archaeological material laboratories.

• University of Leicester Institute Director is one of BioBeat’s 50 Movers and Shakers for 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/01-biobeat-50

  Report celebrates outstanding female leaders in UK healthcare business