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Research on Sikh gurdwaras in England and the 18th century wallpaper trade to be presented
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/research-on-sikh-gurdwaras-in-england-and-the-18th-century-wallpaper-trade-to-be-presented
Two recent PhD graduates from the University of Leicester will be delivering lectures on their respective specialist areas of Sikh gurdwaras in England and the English wallpaper trade as part of the University’s Doctoral Inaugural Lecture series.
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Link between inherited DNA sequences and heart disease identified
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/link-between-inherited-dna-sequences-and-heart-disease-identified
A study to examine recessively inherited genome-wide DNA sequences has for the first time discovered a potential link with Britain’s biggest killer – Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).
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British summer holiday habits of the past explored by Leicester researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/british-summer-holiday-habits-of-the-past-explored-by-leicester-researchers
Visiting different countries and traveling the world is a common way people spend their summer holidays - but the historical British summer holiday would have been a much less frequent and far more local affair.
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School of Business
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business
The University of Leicester School of Business is a vibrant, international and interdisciplinary community of over 150 academics. We are internationally renowned for our courses in accounting and finance, management, marketing and economics.
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New earthbased images prepare for Junos encounter with Jupiters Great Red Spot
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/new-earth-based-images-prepare-for-juno2019s-encounter-with-jupiter2019s-great-red-spot
A space scientist from our Department of Physics and Astronomy has been involved in new Jupiter imagery from two telescopes in Hawaii that is providing context for upcoming close-ups of the Great Red Spot by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
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Disorder, dissent and disruption
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/disorder-dissent-disruption
A collaboration between RCMG and the Wellcome Collection considering the challenges surrounding the embedding of disruption in permanent galleries.
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University researcher awarded prize for work with the World Health Organization on protecting ethnic minority groups from future pandemics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/dan-pan
A University of Leicester researcher in infectious diseases has won a prestigious award for research he conducted into health inequalities.
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Attitudes towards Europe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/04/attitudes-towards-europe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2014 Measuring Party Positions on Europe: The Chapel Hill Expert Surveys These provide free access to quantitative data on national political party positions towards European integration.
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A healthy US election
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/12/a-healthy-us-election/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2020 Stanford-MIT Project on a Healthy Election A joint project to bring together resources about the conduct of the US 2020 presidential elections includes report cards and data on...
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Breakthrough molecular movie reveals DNA’s unzipping mechanism with implications for viral and cancer treatments
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/dna-helix-microscopy-cancer
Scientists at the University of Leicester have captured the first detailed “molecular movie” showing DNA being unzipped at the atomic level