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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Oral history projects in Lincolnshire

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/directory-of-oral-history/east-midlands/lincolnshire

  Browse projects and oral history materials from Lincolnshire, including the Making History project, which was a film project run with schools in an effort for people to investigate their family histories.

• Andrew Dunn: Page 140

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/140/

  Academic Librarian.

• Leicester researchers contribute to House of Lords report on reducing the risks of premature birth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/houseoflordsreport

  Research into how to meet the needs of children born prematurely by academics at the University of Leicester forms part of a new report by the House of Lords

• 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.

• Nixon Court building works

  https://le.ac.uk/study/accommodation/faqs/nixon-court-building-works

  Learn more about building works taking place throughout Nixon Court during the academic year to refresh the exterior of the buildings.