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• Report shows rate of stillbirths and neonatal deaths decreased in 2023 but persistent inequalities remain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/perinatal-loss-infancy-death-leicester

  The MBRRACE-UK collaboration, jointly led by Oxford Population Health’s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit and the University of Leicester’s TIMMS research group, has today published a ‘State of the Nation’ report on perinatal deaths of babies born in the UK in 2023.

• Thirteen things you may not know about black holes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/thirteen-things-you-may-not-know-about-black-holes

  Today it has been announced that scientists who are part of the LIGO Collaboration have detected gravitational waves from black holes.

• Public lecture will see experts discuss how to police sexual violence

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/scarman

  Sexual violence against women and girls in Britain will be discussed by experts in a public lecture at University of Leicester this month.

• Researchers shed light on why and how Stonehenge was built

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/researchers-shed-light-on-why-and-how-stonehenge-was-built

  Excavation of two quarries in Wales by a team of archaeologists and geologists - including Dr Rob Ixer, a researcher with the Department of Geology - has confirmed they are sources of Stonehenge’s ‘bluestones’, shedding light on how they were quarried...

• School of Business shaping initiatives to boost local enterprise

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/school-of-business-to-help-shape-local-initiatives

  Businesses across the East Midlands are being asked to identify and rank their greatest concerns for the coming 12 months. The question is being posed in the first East Midlands Chamber Quarterly Economic Survey of 2018, in partnership with the School of Business.

• Leicester scientist discusses BepiColombo mission to Mercury

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/leicester-professor-discusses-bepicolombo-mission-to-mercury

  Professor Emma Bunce, Principal Investigator of the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS) - one of the main instruments on the upcoming BepiColombo Mercury mission which was designed and built by Leicester researchers, has been interviewed about the mission for BBC...

• Shakespeare and English Language

  https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/erasmus-and-study-abroad/el3027

  Shakespeare and English Language (Semester 2) EL3027 (Macbeth - As You Like It - Richard III) course at the ELTU.

• Writing the Magic of the Criminal Corpse. By Owen Davies

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/11/02/writing-the-magic-of-the-criminal-corpse-by-owen-davies/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on November 2, 2015   It is that time in a major research project when the final outputs are being worked on.

• Announcing 2021 Summer Internships for Leicester Undergraduates

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/04/27/announcing-2021-summer-internships-for-leicester-undergraduates/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 27 April 2021 The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) scheme has been operating for many years, but COVID restrictions led to cancellation in 2020.

• ‘You want Pay-Rise with that?’ Strike Action, Fast-Food Style

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/11/19/you-want-pay-rise-with-that-strike-action-fast-food-style/

  Posted by Paul Brook in School of Business Blog on November 19, 2014 In the age of much austerity and few alternatives, Paul Brook , Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Work and Employment at the School, makes a renewed claim for a politics of labour mobilisation   Not...