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Get involved
https://le.ac.uk/alumni/get-involved
From joining the Alumni Association Standing Committee, to mentoring, to simply sharing your post-graduation story with us, there are so many ways that you can stay involved with the University and its current students.
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The Later Roman Empire AD 235-430
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ah3551
Module code: AH3551 Late Antiquity was a period of dramatic change. Shaken by civil war in the third century, the Roman Empire was reborn under the emperor Diocletian (284-306), and refashioned under his successors into a grand and tyrannical military state.
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Film highlights experiences of children in the Calais Jungle
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/leicester-hosts-film-highlighting-plight-of-children-in-the-calais-jungle
Calais Children: a Case to Answer, a film which highlights the plight of almost 2,000 lone children who were in the Calais ‘Jungle’ when it was burnt down at the end of 2016, will be screened in the Attenborough Film Theatre at the University of Leicester on Monday 21 May...
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The Two Fredericks: A snapshot of male intimacy in prison
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/09/30/the-two-fredericks-cockatoo-island/
Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on September 30, 2016 In the 1840s, campaigners for the abolition of convict transportation engaged in a campaign of scare-mongering about the prevalence of sexual acts between male convicts (dubbed “unnatural acts”).
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Officially the best University security team in Europe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/officially-the-best-university-security-team-in-europe
AUCSO is the leading organisation in the UK & Europe for security professionals in Higher and Further Education.
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Hayabusa 2: Asteroid Samples Return this Weekend
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/12/04/hayabusa-2-asteroid-samples-return-this-weekend/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 4 December 2020 Professor John Bridges discusses the importance of the Hayabusa 2 mission, returning samples of asteroid Ryugu to Earth this weekend, in a blog for theConversation .
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PhD Projects in Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/11/18/phd-projects-for-2021/
PhD projects in Leicester Physics and Astronomy 2021
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Undersea warfare in the wake of a new wave of technology
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/undersea-warfare-in-the-wake-of-a-new-wave-of-technology
Experts are to gather in London tomorrow (13 September) to examine the challenges posed by new technologies to submarine based defence systems such as Trident.
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Star Flaws the Skywalker twins drift apart
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/the-skywalker-twins-drift-apart
In the original Star Wars trilogy, one of the big revelations is that main characters Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia are actually twins separated at birth.
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What did you learn at the museum today? Second study
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/what-did-you-learn-2
This research project explored the impact of Renaissance funding on museum education, looking specifically at impact on pupils’ learning.