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The Production of News
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ms2000
Module code: MS2000 News is now everywhere in our lives: on our mobile phones, on our laptops and tablets, on our TV screens. More importantly, news is vital for any democratic society.
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Using forensic science to tackle sexual violence in humanitarian contexts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/using-forensic-science-to-tackle-sexual-violence-in-humanitarian-contexts
Researchers are using forensic DNA to help tackle sexual violence in humanitarian contexts - such as remote locations, displaced communities, conflict and post-conflict situations.
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Resources
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/gene-mutations-and-cancer/school-and-colleges/resources
If you're studying towards your A-Levels, take a look at the information we have that can aid you with your studies on genetic mutation and cancer.
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Leicester, Leicestershire
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect/leicestershire/leicester
Listen to speakers from Leicester, Leicestershire from a range of backgrounds as part of the dialect project between researchers from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Leicester.
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Preparing for an interview
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/how-to-do-oral-history/interviewing/preparing
Learn more about preparing for your interviews and browse a checklist for what to do in the run up to conducting your interview.
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The hunt for the Christmas meteorite
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/the-hunt-for-the-christmas-meteorite
An article by the BBC discussing a 4.5bn-year 'Christmas meteorite' - the biggest to hit the UK - which crashed on Christmas Eve, 1965, in the village of Barwell in Leicestershire has quoted Dr Leigh Fletcher from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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Competition offers publication and prizes for new fiction writers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/competition-offers-publication-and-prizes-for-new-fiction-writers
Following its successful first year, the free Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning Summer Short Story Competition is now open for 2015, inviting writers and storytellers throughout Leicestershire to take part in a writing competition where the only limit is their...
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New tennis facilities net community award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/new-tennis-facilities-net-community-award
The University of Leicester has received the first ever Leicestershire Community Venue of Year award from the Aegon British Tennis Awards for the Roger Bettles Sports Centre and its new tennis facilities.
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University wins support for out of the box ideas
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/university-wins-support-for-2018out-of-the-box2019-ideas
Research into new drugs at the University has been boosted by government money. The University has been successful in obtaining grants totalling £1M from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to support research into new medicines.
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Education experts lead science education summit
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/education-experts-lead-science-education-summit
Our academic experts have travelled to Malaysia to help shape the next two decades of science education policy at a three-day conference between 14-16 March.