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• Heightened COVID-19 risk for BAME healthcare workers to be examined in major UK study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/covid-bame-risk-study

  More than £2m of Government funding has been awarded to academics at the University of Leicester to investigate why people from BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) backgrounds have a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19, after higher proportions of associated...

• To settle harsh environments, early humans needed friends – new findings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/harsh-environments-early-humans

  University of Leicester expertise helps to identify the oldest archaeological site in Lesotho, southern Africa and evidence of human occupation as early as 242,000 years ago

• Activities

  https://le.ac.uk/miv/activities

  The minimal surfaces project has created a number of research activities, including papers, conferences, seminars and talks.

• International Law and the Use of Force

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/lw7261

  Module code: LW7261 This module introduces you to the key principles of constitutional law aspects of states’ resort to force in a comparative perspective. The focus of this module is not so much the legality of use of force under international law (i.e.

• International Law and the Use of Force

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/lw7261

  Module code: LW7261 This module introduces you to the key principles of constitutional law aspects of states’ resort to force in a comparative perspective. The focus of this module is not so much the legality of use of force under international law (i.e.

• International Law and the Use of Force

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/lw7261

  Module code: LW7261 This module introduces you to the key principles of constitutional law aspects of states’ resort to force in a comparative perspective. The focus of this module is not so much the legality of use of force under international law (i.e.

• Trees in tropical logged forests release carbon at greater rate despite faster growth, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/carbon-trees

  University of Leicester-led research focusing on the carbon dioxide produced by tree stems shows that individual trees in tropical forests impacted by logging produce more carbon dioxide per m2 of woody stem area than those in unaffected forests

• Winter Wonderland

  https://le.ac.uk/winter-wonderland

  Winter Wonderland festivities for our students and staff to celebrate the season

• Device and software development

  https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/precision-health/projects/device-development

  We support the development of devices that assist in rapid and reliable diagnosis of diseases and conditions. A number of early stage projects have received pump prime funding (see below) to develop new devices.

• Plaque to mark Barwell Christmas Eve meteorite unveiled

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/green-plaque-to-mark-barwell-meteorite-which-landed-in-1965-unveiled

  A green plaque marking the surprise arrival of a large meteorite in the village of Barwell on Christmas Eve in 1965 has been unveiled at the junction of Chapel Street and Dawson's Lane - close to the site of the meteorite fall.