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Focusing on hospital death rates may be costing patients their lives, new study suggests
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/hospital-death-rates-heart-treatment
Choosing the right heart treatment involves balancing short-term procedural safety with long-term survival, according to a new national study by the University of Leicester
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Health Law LLM
https://le.ac.uk/courses/health-law-llm/2026
Explore topical legal, ethical and moral dilemmas that go to the heart of how we live and die, with a focus on addressing inequalities in health.
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Glynis Wright MBE
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/entrepreneurs-in-residence/glynnis-wright
Dr Glynis Wright MBE is an alumna of the University of Leicester and a well-known businesswoman and lawyer who made a career U-turn at the age of 40 to train for the legal profession.
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Early-risers may catch “Father Christmas” on his way back to the North Pole via the skies above the UK
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/father-christmas-skies-space-park-leicester
The International Space Station is due to make a 'high pass' at 06:18 local time and, weather permitting, visible until around 06:23
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Myths and Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry, 8 May 2018
https://le.ac.uk/medieval/events/archive/public-lectures/bayeux-tapestry
Myths and Mysteries of the Bayeux Tapestry was a lecture by Dr Michael Lewis (FSA MCIfA), Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum, London, and an acknowledged expert on the Tapestry.
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Assassins Creed may give gamers a gripping sense of vertigo but its leaping calculations are optimistic at best
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-science-of-assassins-creed
The popular video game franchise 'Assassin’s Creed' often depicts characters leaping off tall buildings into piles of loose hay or straw lying on the ground or in a cart, by diving head first then executing a half-summersault to land on their back.
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Fire and ice: the Antarctic volcanoes that hint at our climate future
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/john-smellie-antarctica-volcanoes-climate
Professor John Smellie, Honorary Professor in the School of Geology, Geography and the Environment, talks about his career and his love of the volcanoes of the Antarctic as he receives his second Polar Medal.
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Accounting and Finance Conference
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/research-events/accounting-and-finance-conference
Accounting and Finance at ULSB invites submissions for its inaugural research conference 'The Future of Finance and Accounting: Digital Transformation, Innovation, and Systemic Change'.
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Addressing the museum attendance and benefit gap: inequality, representative participation and implementation science
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/addressing-the-attendance-and-benefit-gap
Survey data on who visits museums and decades of research in cultural sociology internationally tell us that museum visiting reflects the socio-economic gradient, closely tracking inequalities in education, income, employment, mental health and other indicators of social...
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Museum Studies (Hong Kong) MA, MSc, PGDip, PGCert, short course by distance learning
https://le.ac.uk/courses/museum-studies-hong-kong-ma-msc-dl/2026
This is for you if... you are based in, or near, Hong Kong and you want to gain the knowledge and skills you need to develop your career in the museum and galleries profession.