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Leicester involved in Earth Observation project to protect tropical forests worldwide
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/leicester-involved-in-earth-observation-project-to-protect-tropical-forests-worldwide
Our University is involved in a new £15m project funded by the UK Space Agency to help to protect tropical forests throughout the world.
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ESRC Reading Goals Project
https://le.ac.uk/esrc-reading-goals-project
Find out more about the ESRC Reading Goals project, at the University of Leicester. Revealing the implications of reading strategy for reading behaviour and comprehension.
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Art and Society in Spain
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sp3149
Module code: SP3149 This module will explore some of the major aspects of Spain’s development between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries via a selection of paintings by the great masters of Spanish Art.
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Section 1 - Definitions
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/documents/statutes/definitions
Read Section 1 of our Statutes, entitled Definitions. This section defines the terms used in the Statutes and their specific meaning within the context of the Statutes.
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Undergraduate courses
https://le.ac.uk/politics/study/undergraduate
The School of History, Politics, and International Relations at the University of Leicester consists of highly qualified, committed and approachable people.
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New board appointed to advise on future space innovation in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/space-advisory-board-innovation
A new board has been created which will further strengthen Leicester’s pivotal role at the heart of UK space innovation. Leicester is one of the world’s most active cities for space research and has contributed to space exploration for more than six decades.
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Leicester experts contribute to international consortium helping patients with rare disease diagnosis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/rare-diseases
Experts from the University of Leicester have co-coordinated a European consortium of 300 researchers to help patients with unsolved rare diseases receive a diagnosis through new genetic reanalysis
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Regular exercisers should be reassured by results of heart study, experts claim
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/heart-study
A study by University of Leicester researchers, investigating the belief that too much exercise can be bad for the heart has found that the heart’s structure and function does adapt to high levels of habitual physical activity but these changes stay within normal ranges
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Forensic Accounting
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/af3013
Module code: AF3013 Forensic Accounting aims to provide a critical appreciation of the context, motivations and rationalisation of financial fraud.
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White Dwarfs
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/astrophysics/white-dwarfs
White dwarfs are the end products of the life cycles of more than 90% of all stars. This makes them important laboratories for studying stellar evolution and the behaviour of matter at extremes of temperature and density.