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• US Space leaders visit Space Park Leicester to strengthen transatlantic collaboration

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/us-space-leaders-visit-space-park-leicester

  The University of Leicester’s £100 million space research and innovation centre welcomed a high-level delegation as part of a four-day mission across the UK’s leading space hubs.

• Scientists deliver world-first lobster X-ray telescope mirror

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/svom-satellite-lobster-mirror

  Space scientists at the University of Leicester have delivered a completely new type of super-lightweight X-ray telescope mirror to study the greatest explosions in the Universe since the Big Bang.

• Using Theory in Improvement Research – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2015/06/25/theory-in-improvement/

  This SAPPHIRE blog argues that far from being overly complex and irrelevant, theory has a practical role to play in healthcare improvement. We all need to work to make theory more accessible for the front-line practitioners doing improvement work.

• Raptorman is conservation hero

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/international-accolade-for-graduate-whose-mission-is-to-save-vultures

  A Leicester graduate has been honoured by HRH Princess Royal for his conservation work to save vultures. Dr Munir Virani gained a Master’s degree in 1994 and a PhD in 2000, then under the supervision of Professor Emeritus David Harper.

• Useful Bloom taxonomy related websites/resources (and some critiques) – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2014/08/12/bloom/

  The 'Learning Outcomes Project' at the University of Leicester. Useful Bloom taxonomy related websites/resources - and some criticisms.

• Pioneering research into rare cancer is making a difference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/fennell

  A professor who is ranked the highest in the world in his field is celebrating after receiving a prestigious award for his pioneering research into a rare type of cancer

• Unity is our strength why it is vital to stay in the EU

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/unity-is-our-strength-2013-why-it-is-vital-to-stay-in-the-eu

  Liz Kendall, MP for Leicester West and Labour's East Midlands EU Champion visited the University of Leicester’s new Centre for Medicine, which is part-funded by the European Union.

• University to hold series of public events as part of Festival of Social Science

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/social-science

  The University of Leicester will host a series of events as part of the UK’s biggest celebration of social science research.

• EU at ‘critical point’ as Germany searches for Merkel successor

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/eu-merkel

  A leading economist has warned that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s successor will have ‘big shoes to fill’ on the European stage, after describing her as ‘the continuity of Europe’.

• Zoo poo might hold the secrets to new medical treatments

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/phages-dudley-zoo-poo

  Scientists at the University of Leicester are hoping the collection of poo from tigers, elephants, rhinos and other exotic animals, could contain the secret to finding new medical treatments.