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  • Leicester researchers partner with Youth Sport Trust to get Girls Active

    Leicester researchers are working with the Youth Sport Trust to determine whether a school-based physical activity programme could help provide the key to encouraging adolescent girls to be and stay active.

  • Financial Sustainability and Climate Change

    The need to strengthen financial markets, make them more resilient to challenges resulting from climate change and able to support green transformation requires in-depth research.

  • Its written in the stars

    Astronomers today opened one of the last remaining windows on the Universe, publishing the first full 3D census of over one billion stars in our Milky Way.

  • Upcoming conference to celebrate 30 year anniversary of DNA fingerprinting discovery

    In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the landmark discovery and application of DNA fingerprinting by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, the University is hosting a conference to share new innovations in forensic science on Wednesday 15 April.

  • Sami Zubaida

    We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.

  • Surnames and the Y chromosome

    Dr Turi E King, Research Fellow and Project Manager of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain. Lead researcher on 'The Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in the North of England' project. Research Fellow: Dr Turi King  In Britain, we have heritable surnames.

  • Broadening our international horizons

    Menu Close University Leadership Team Home Broadening our international horizons Broadening our international horizons Posted by on October 11, 2016 When I was 10 years old I bought myself a ‘Teach yourself Chinese’ book.

  • Protein levels in urine are reliable measure of effectiveness in kidney disease research says study

    An international consortium of doctors and scientists, including members from Leicester’s Hospitals and the University of Leicester, has found that protein levels in urine are a reliable way to measure the effectiveness of a medicine, device or treatment on the progress of...

  • Professor Vincent Newey (1943–2020)

    Professor Philip Shaw writes: It is with deep sadness that I share the news that Vincent Newey, our colleague, friend and former Head of Department, has passed away.

  • Alumni Association Committee

    See the Alumni Committee's terms of reference and membership, including details of their role, responsibilities, reporting hierarchy and meetings.

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