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Haiyan Xu
https://le.ac.uk/people/haiyan-xu
The academic profile of Dr Haiyan Xu, Lecturer at University of Leicester
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Charles Phythian-Adams
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/charles-phythian-adams
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Emeritus Professor Charles Phythian-Adams, former Head of the Department of English Local History (now the Centre for Regional and Local History), who passed away on 13 May 2025.
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Oral history
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history
Learn more about the origins of oral history, its value in academia and how you could find out more about it.
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/148/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Fiendish Friday Quiz
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/03/07/fiendish-friday-quiz/
An Evelyn Waugh quiz originally published in the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter, 1982
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Stargazing nights at Oadby Observatory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/12/16/stargazing-nights-at-oadby-observatory/
The School of Physics and Astronomy would like to invite staff and their families to a stargazing night at the Oadby Observatory on Manor Road.
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Academic develops method for synthesising more reliable drug alternative to antibodies
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/academic-develops-method-for-synthesising-2018more-reliable2019-drug-alternative-to-antibodies
Professor Sergey Piletsky (pictured) from the Department of Chemistry has been instrumental in creating a new method to develop an alternative to traditional antibodies that is more reliable and can be made quicker.
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Major new research on pictoral smoking warnings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/major-new-research-on-pictoral-smoking-warnings
The University is part of an international team that carried out a large experimental study on pictorial warnings for tobacco products funded by the European Commission.
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Nairobi Alliance
https://le.ac.uk/research/gcrf/nairobi-alliance
Our projects We’re proud that as part of the Nairobi Alliance we have already been able to make an impact through our research.
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Women and girls in the pandemic
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/22/women-and-girls-in-the-pandemic/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2021 The Report on the UN Women Global Response to COVID-19 covers global, national and regional responses and includes information on social protection, economic protection and...