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Ground-breaking space technology receives real-life health application
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/29-space-technology
Air quality heat map Air quality heat map 1200|UK Space Agency awards Leicester team £2 million.
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Leicester cosmic explosion expert among exceptional scientists elected as Royal Society Fellows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/cosmic-explosion-scientist-elected-royal-society-fellow
University of Leicester’s Professor Nial Tanvir receives one of science’s highest honours, recognising a career spent studying the Universe’s brightest and most violent explosions
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Leicester-led issue of prestigious journal collects latest thinking on human impact on biosphere
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/prestigious-journal-human-impact-biosphere
University of Leicester Earth scientist guest-edits issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, building on leading role in the proposal of the Anthropocene epoch which reflects human impact on the biosphere
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Major heart attack study reveals ‘survival paradox’: Frail men at higher risk of death than women despite better treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/heart-attack-frailty-sex-leicester
Pioneering research from the University of Leicester and NIHR challenges the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to heart attack care, adding critical nuance to the debate on sex disparities
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Efforts to establish laws for space boosted by Ukraine partnerships
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/space-law-conference
Conference tackling law and international co-operation in space hosted at University of Leicester, organised by expert in space law who fled Ukraine for Leicester.
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Our team raises aspirations at Farnborough
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/our-team-raises-aspirations-at-farnborough
British astronaut and Honorary graduate Tim Peake joined our very own Suzie Imber at Farnborough International Airshow to launch ‘The Holiday Makers’ summer holiday campaign.
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Return of marked work
https://le.ac.uk/policies/quality/feedback/marked-work
University of Leicester policy on marked work ensures timely feedback is returned to support student learning and assessment literacy.
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Volumes
https://le.ac.uk/evelyn-waugh/about/volumes
Explore all 43 volumes of the new Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project with the University of Leicester. Find out more about the project and see the published volumes.
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New clues about why non-smokers, as well as smokers, develop chronic lung disease revealed
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/25-copd
chest xray showing lungs|Researchers reveal findings that explain why some people who have never smoked develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Celebrating 50 years of knowledge transfer partnerships
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/celebrating-50-years-knowledge-transfer-partnerships
The University of Leicester hosted a KTP@50 event to mark five decades of transformative collaboration between academia and industry through the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme.