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• Economics professor discusses research into what makes people vote in elections

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/economics-professor-discusses-research-into-what-makes-people-vote-in-elections

  Professor Eyal Winter from the School of Business has been featured in a ScienceNews article discussing how voter turnout increases when polling numbers are close. Research conducted by Professor Winter and colleagues in 2006 looked at U.S. gubernatorial races from 1990 to 2005.

• Difficult Conversations

  https://le.ac.uk/centenary/events/difficult-conversations

  University of Leicester marks its centenary with a series of thought-provoking and informative talks by academics and guest speakers.

• Leicester fosters future biomedical research talent

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/leicester-fosters-future-biomedical-research-talent

  The University is making a substantial investment into a critical mass of future biomedical research talent by announcing 27 new PhD studentships that will tackle some of the world’s most pressing and bioscience health issues.

• Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Team helps on farm, adopts sheep

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/11-edi-sheep

  For their team away day this week, the University’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Team volunteered at Gorse Hill City Farm.

• International Womens Day universities must work together to tackle inequality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/international-women2019s-day-universities-must-work-together-to-tackle-inequality

  This week we are celebrating International Women’s Day 2017, with universities across the world hosting events.

• University of Leicester Staff Blogs School of English Centre for New Writing Trains Pioneers of Crea

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/16/centre-for-new-writing-trains-pioneers-of-creative-writing-in-secondary-schools/

  Centre for New Writing creative writing training for A level teachers

• Dr Rachel Winter has won the Royal College of Psychiatrists Higher Psychiatric Trainee of the Year Award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/rachel-winter

  Dr Rachel Winter, honorary consultant in old age psychiatry at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust and associate professor in empathic healthcare and medical education at University of Leicester, has won the Royal College of Psychiatrists Higher Psychiatric Trainee of the...

• Sami Zubaida

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/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.

• PGR Careers blog University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2014/10/14/begin-with-the-end-in-mind/

  PGR Careers blog from the University of Leicester

• Sustainability

  https://le.ac.uk/sustainability

  Learn how we are committed to protecting, creating and enhancing space for a diversity of human and non-human life and to help others do the same through our academic and operational expertise.