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New elite ranking of world universities places Leicester amongst top institutions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/new-elite-ranking-of-world-universities-places-leicester-amongst-top-institutions
A new ranking of the world’s top 300 elite universities has ranked the University of Leicester among the leading institutions in the world.
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UK first heart operations using novel system at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/uk-first-heart-operations-using-novel-system-at-leicester
The UK’s first heart operations using a novel software platform to pinpoint the source of the heart condition have been carried out in Leicester thanks to research at the University.
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Omnidea Ltd lands at Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/25-omnidea-space-park
Omnidea Group has announced that its UK subsidiary – Omnidea Ltd – has established in Leicester. Currently at the Innovation Hub of the University of Leicester, Omnidea Ltd is expected to be the first tenant at the new Space Park currently under development.
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Leicester Start-Up Week offers new opportunities for young businesses
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/18-start-up-week
From 18-24 November 2019 the University of Leicester and De Montfort University along with businesses and organisations across the city will unite for the second annual Leicester Start-Up Week.
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Work placement
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement
All students on our campus-based masters programmes in Museum Studies and Art Museum and Gallery Studies at the University of Leicester undertake an 8 week, full-time, work placement. Find out more.
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Inclusive Collections
https://le.ac.uk/library/about/policies/inclusive-collections
Our Collections Development Strategy states that ‘we will create an inclusive and diverse collection that supports learning and research’.
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Sensational discovery of previously unseen Adrian Mole diary
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/sensational-discovery-of-previously-unseen-adrian-mole-diary
Teenage intellectual Mole achieved fame in the 1980s for his astute, observational journal cataloguing middle class domestic life in a Leicester household. He has been cited by some critics as “a modern day Pepys.
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Disorder, dissent and disruption
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/disorder-dissent-disruption
A collaboration between RCMG and the Wellcome Collection considering the challenges surrounding the embedding of disruption in permanent galleries.
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Treatment for frail heart patients improves survival rates
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/revascularisation
A new study, led by the University of Leicester, shows that heart patients treated with revascularisation have better survival rates, even with a high risk of frailty.
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New strategic partnership to explore four-dimensional first order controls on nickel mineral systems
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/bhp-ev-metals
The project and partnership with BHP has developed directly from recent work by the Leicester-UWA group that has shed new light on the processes involved in the sources and transport mechanisms of metals through the lithosphere in magmatic systems, published in Nature...