Search
-
A Catalyst for Change: Transforming Responses to Harassment in Higher Education
https://le.ac.uk/hate-studies/research/a-catalyst-of-change
A major new nationwide study, led by the Centre for Hate Studies at the University of Leicester, will examine the complex landscape of harassment within higher education institutions.
-
Prejudice & Pride: exploring LGBTQ lives at the National Trust
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/prejudice-and-pride
This research project enriched and informed the National Trust’s 2017 programme that marked 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality.
-
Green Energy and Transport
https://le.ac.uk/engineering/research/green-energy-and-transport
The School of Engineering is actively involved in the push towards Net Zero Energy and Transportation Systems. Learn more about the staff, and the activities undertaken in the School.
-
Antarctica’s irregular heartbeat shows signs of rapid melting
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/ice-sheets
Geoscientists led by Universities of Leicester and Southampton create new climate record for early Antarctic ice ages and reveal that the early Antarctic ice sheet melted more rapidly than previously thought
-
Trees in tropical logged forests release carbon at greater rate despite faster growth, study finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/carbon-trees
University of Leicester-led research focusing on the carbon dioxide produced by tree stems shows that individual trees in tropical forests impacted by logging produce more carbon dioxide per m2 of woody stem area than those in unaffected forests
-
Leicester celebrates British Science Week with top five innovations
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/innovations
The University of Leicester is celebrating this year’s theme for British Science Week (5-14 March 2021), ‘Innovating for the Future’, by highlighting the top five innovations pioneered at the University.
-
University of Leicester provides outstanding teacher training, says Ofsted
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/teacher-training
Ofsted, the government inspector of educational institutions has concluded that University of Leicester's initial teacher training courses are of the highest standard.
-
New Leicester education centre to provide opportunities for city’s young people
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/intouni
Young people in Leicester will have a greater chance of realising their ambitions thanks to a new education centre in the city.
-
Leicester supports post-COVID regional recovery
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/uuk-getting-results
The University of Leicester is working with employers, partners and local leaders to help support post-COVID regional recovery in the East Midlands, by encouraging skills growth, create jobs and help retain expertise and knowledge within the area.
-
Spring into the new year with Attenborough Arts Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/attenborough-arts-spring
Read more about the Attenborough Arts Centre's new spring exhibitions, performances, workshops and other events.