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New project Standing Together Against Hate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/new-project-2018standing-together-against-hate2019
Leicester is one of over 40 universities and colleges in England that has been awarded funding totalling £1.8 million from HEFCE to improve responses to hate crime and online harassment on campus.
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Leicester academic honoured by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-academic-honoured-by-the-society-for-the-history-of-alchemy-and-chemistry
A former Leicester academic will be celebrated at the anniversary meeting of the Society of the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) on 20 May.
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2023
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/spring-seminar-series/archive/2023
2023 Spring Seminar Series: Global Victorians Tiny Traces: Uncovering the Lives of African and Asian Children at London's Foundling Hospital 8 March Speaker: Hannah Dennett (University of Warwick) In-person: Fielding Johnson South Wing, Ogden Lewis 1 ...
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Living in Towns: Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Urbanism
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar2034
Module: AR2034 What did towns look like after Roman decline? When do we see a ‘rebirth’ of towns? Were medieval towns heavily fortified? How clean were medieval towns and households? Were medieval towns dominated by religious structures? These are...
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/politics/research
Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester covers a wide range of research areas and are currently engaged in plans for research dissemination in continental Europe, the USA and Asia.
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University of Leicester academic among recipients of prestigious Academy of Medical Sciences Springboard Award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/leicester-academy-springboard-award
University of Leicester academic recognized among a select group of ‘exceptional’ biomedical and health researchers awarded a total of £6.6 million in funding.
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Race and Health Observatory to work with UK academic team to explore impact of long-COVID on UK healthcare workers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/reach-out
The NHS Race and Health Observatory has today announced the start of a three-year study to investigate the long-term impact of COVID on NHS healthcare workers (HCWs) across the UK from diverse ethnic backgrounds and roles.
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Animals’ ‘sixth sense’ more widespread than previously thought
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/animal-magnetic
A study using fruit flies, led by researchers at The Universities of Leicester and Manchester, suggests the animal world’s ability to sense a magnetic field may be more widespread than previously thought.
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2015 events
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/events/past-events/2015
Find summaries of all the events held by the Centre for New Writing in 2015.
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Revolutionary new treatment set to transform lives of severe asthma sufferers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/asthma
The future for people suffering from severe asthma is looking bright after a Leicester-based research team confirm the benefits of a revolutionary medicine, which has been recently approved for use in the UK