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Join Jane Austen and zombie experts for pre-Halloween screening and panel
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/11-pp-and-zombies
Experts on 19th century literature and the undead will come together for a pre-Halloween event at the University of Leicester on 29 October when the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies presents a free screening of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, followed by a discussion...
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Historian in TV series
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/historian-in-tv-series
Dr Michael Lynch (pictured), Honorary Fellow in our School History, Politics & International Relations, has been involved in a number of TV series on modern history in recent years.
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Staff and students to climb Everest in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/staff-and-students-to-climb-everest-in-leicester
The Attenborough Tower, the tallest building on the University of Leicester’s campus, stands at 52 metres high. Mount Everest is 171 times higher, at 8848 metres. On Wednesday 6 May, between 9.30am and 3.
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Protecting Children Online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2023/11/20/protecting-children-online/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on November 20, 2023 Di Levine – Assistant Professor/Lecturer and Impact Lead, School of Criminology & Research Associate (visiting researcher), Centre for Social Development in Africa,...
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Student accolades
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/wellcome-trust-dtp/accolades
Find out more about some of our students’ achievements. Lorna Wheaton Lorna won First Place Poster Prize at the Royal Statistical Society conference in September 2023 and published her first paper in February 2024.
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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
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Blood cancer breakthrough offers clues for tailored patient treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/blood-cancer-breakthrough-offers-clues-for-tailored-patient-treatment
Patients with blood cancer could be offered a tailored course of treatment in the future, after Leicester academics successfully trialled the use of liquid biopsies to help predict how successfully patients would respond to treatment.
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HRH Princess Royal visit
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/hrh-princess-royal-visit
HRH The Princess Royal is to boldly go on a mission into space - well, the National Space Centre in Leicester. The Centre is the brainchild of the University and was co-founded by the University.
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Publications
https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/publications
Articles published on the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain by key academics and researchers.
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Publications
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-impact-of-diasporas-on-the-making-of-britain/publications
Recent articles by Professor Mark Jobling and his team S Harding, M Jobling and T King (Foreword by Michael Wood), Viking DNA: The Wirral and West Lancashire Project.