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Will the government’s AI action plan be a success?
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/artificial-intelligence
University of Leicester expert comments on the UK government's action plan to boost its role in developing and deploying artificial intelligence.
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The formula for success in 100 years of Chemistry at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/formula-success-100-years-chemistry-centenary
As the School of Chemistry celebrates 100 years of Chemistry at Leicester, find out more about its history and achievements
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The Politics of Violent Conflict and its Legacies in Northern Ireland
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/pl7534
Module code: PL7534 With the Belfast Agreement of 1998, the thirty-year long violent conflict in Northern Ireland appeared to be drawing to a close, although there has been sporadic political violence, and problems with the implementation of the Agreement in the subsequent...
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Bible from the era of Richard III to mark reinterment ceremony
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/bible-from-the-era-of-richard-iii-to-mark-reinterment-ceremony
A 500-year-old Bible from Richard III’s lifetime, housed in the University's Special Collections, will play a key role in the ceremony marking the arrival of the King’s coffin at Leicester Cathedral on 22 March.
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From air travel getting safer to the doublestandards of sex tourism
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/from-air-travel-getting-safer-to-the-double-standard-of-sex-tourism
In the latest in a series of opinion pieces Dr Simon Bennett from the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning has written an article for The Conversation discussing how despite what news stories may suggest, air travel is actually getting safer.
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Leicester to train the next generation of arts and humanities researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/leicester-to-train-the-next-generation-of-arts-and-humanities-researchers
Leicester is among eight leading universities in the Midlands that are joining together to train the next generation of highly-skilled arts and humanities researchers, thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
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Leicester geologist contributes to major project examining the technosphere
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/leicester-geologist-contributes-to-major-project-examining-the-2018technosphere2019
Professor Jan Zalasiewicz from our Department of Geology is working with artist Anne-Sophie Milon on a new project examining the ‘technosphere’ and what impact it will leave behind on the planet’s fossil record.
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The Archaeological Survey of Sudanese Nubia (ASSN) 1963-1969
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/diverse-heritage/the-archaeological-survey-of-sudanese-nubia-assn-1963-1969
A project page for the University of Leicester's research into the 1963-1969 archaeological survey of Sudanese Nubia
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Arch-I-Scan blog symposium Engineering the Past
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2022/03/28/suns-out-go-inside-for-a-conference/
Report of attendance symposium Engineering the Past
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Leicester academic to chair expert panel at the British Library
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-dr-emma-parker-joe-orton-british-library
Dr Emma Parker, Associate Professor of Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the University of Leicester’s Department of English, will chair a star-studded panel discussion on Joe Orton’s 1969 play What the Butler Saw at the British Library on Tuesday 23 April 2019.