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• Bioscience departments receive recognition for tackling gender inequality

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/bioscience-departments-receive-recognition-for-tackling-gender-inequality

  Our University has been further recognised for our commitment to tackling gender inequality in higher education with the announcement that two of our biosciences departments have received Athena SWAN awards.

• Exposure to air pollution in pregnancy and early life has important impacts on lung function in early childhood

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/27-pollution-during-pregnancy

  New research by the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability (CESH) at the University of Leicester indicates that exposure to air pollution from road traffic as early as the first trimester of pregnancy and in early life is associated with small but significant...

• Major investment in doctoral students to support next generation of researchers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/doctoral-funding

  University of Leicester is a partner in two programmes to benefit from £500 million investment in postgraduate training nationally

• Leicester historians guest edit Centenary journal edition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/howard-journal

  Leading historians from the University of Leicester have guest edited a special Centenary issue of the prestigious Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.

• Leicester Law School hosts the Festival of Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange for Research at the University of Leicester 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/knowledge-exchange-public-festival-law-school

  Leicester Law School is delighted to host the Festival of Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange for Research offering a public platform for academics, students, community organisations, industry leaders, policy makers and civic partners to connect, share and discover the...

• Leicester event to debate HE autonomy issues in Europe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/leicester-event-to-debate-he-autonomy-issues-in-europe

  Few would argue that in order to be successful, universities need autonomy. They must be able to take their own decisions, and the academics working within them must have the freedom to pursue their research.

• Ten University academics appointed to 2021 Research Excellence Framework

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/ten-university-academics-appointed-to-2021-research-excellence-framework

  Research England appoint 10 academics from the University of Leicester to serve as panellists in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF).

• Researchers publish results of largest ever study on postnatal depression in British South Asian mothers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/postnatal-depression

  An extensive trial , supported by the University of Leicester, into postnatal depression in South Asian women has found that tailored support can make a difference to their recovery

• Leading light in auroras to give prestigious astronomy lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/provan-aurora-lecture

  Dr Gabrielle Provan from the University of Leicester is to give the Royal Astronomical Society’s James Dungey Lecture, focusing on the auroral light displays on Earth and beyond

• Space scientists look to face down climate change

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/sprint-funding

  Two pioneering projects led by space scientists at the University of Leicester have been awarded a share of research funding by the UK Space Agency.