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Leicester medical students win national competition on social media safety
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/medical-students-social-media-safety
Four medical students from Leicester Medical School have won a UK-wide competition on professionalism held by the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Medical Schools Council (MSC).
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Space Park Leicester to lead key skills development discussion at Ignite Space 2025
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/ignite
Ignite Space conference take place from 5-6 February, where experts from Space Park Leicester will address the pressing skills shortage facing the UK space sector
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Leicester academic selected by Commission for Countering Extremism for research on the Far Right
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/09-commission-for-countering-extremism-papers
The independent Commission for Countering Extremism has today (Tuesday 9 April) announced that Dr Chris Allen, Associate Professor in Hate Studies in the University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies, as one of the leading academics it has commissioned to write a research...
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Leicester researchers identify ethnic disparities in accessing continuous glucose monitors
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/ethnic-disparities-glucose-monitoring-leicester
People from Afro-Caribbean and South Asian backgrounds are less likely to be prescribed “life-changing” diabetes technology compared to White individuals, a new study by the University of Leicester has reported
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University of Leicester strikes health and education agreements with Ghana to work on shared goals
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/university-leicester-health-education-agreements-ghana
The University of Leicester has strengthened its West African ties after entering a partnership with the University of Ghana and launching major health research into diabetes in Ghana.
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New research could help detect early signs of heart failure in diabetic patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/diabetes-heart-failure
New research in Leicester, which has been funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), could help understand how heart failure can develop in people living with Type 2 diabetes. An estimated 3.7 million people in the UK are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
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About the project
https://le.ac.uk/dickens-code/about
Learn more about the overview of 'The Dickens Code' project, including the many different areas of academia that will benefit from understanding more about the unique shorthand that Dickens used.
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COVID-19 hit businesses set to benefit from University of Leicester's business expertise
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/leicester-business-covid
Small and medium businesses affected by COVID-19 in Leicester are to benefit from the expertise of one of the Midlands’ top business schools, as part of a £20million government package to help small businesses recover from the impact of COVID-19 in the long term.
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Leicester researchers aim to tackle worldwide type 2 diabetes epidemic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/24-leicester-researchers-aim-to-tackle-worldwide-type-2-diabetes-epidemic
A team from the Leicester Diabetes Centre has just returned after travelling to Mozambique with colleagues from Geneva and Malawi to discuss potentially rolling out an education programme in those two countries.
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Stop violence against women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/12/stop-violence-against-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 12, 2016 The 16 days of activism campaign ended on 10 th December. But the release this week of the Femicide census by Womens Aid shows why it is still necessary.