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Study
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/study
If you wish to study Victorian Studies with us, you can study for either a Victorian Studies MA or a Victorian Studies PhD or MPhil. Discover our thriving community, high-profile conferences and research forums.
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Reimagining the Restoration: Samuel Pepys's diary and popular history
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/projects/pepys-project
About the project Samuel Pepys’s lively diary of the 1660s describes major events such as the plague and the Great Fire of London, alongside his hectic private life.
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University of Leicester research into Joe Orton’s relationship with Kenneth Halliwell to feature in LGBTQ+ mental health exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/poetic-licence
A play about the Leicester-born playwright, Joe Orton, informed by research from the University of Leicester, will feature in The Netherlands’ first exhibition about LGBTQ+ mental health.
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Figures associated with University receive Queens birthday honours
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/figures-associated-with-university-receives-queen2019s-birthday-honours
An archaeologist whose work helped to establish a new branch of her discipline is one of several figures associated with the University of Leicester to be honoured in the Queen’s birthday honours.
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A multidisciplinary team of scientists aim to solve the mystery of magnetoreception
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/magnetoreception
A significant research grant from the Wellcome Trust will allow a team of researchers to identify the biological mechanisms through which magnetic forces affect animals, including humans
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Urban and Industrial Change in the Midlands 1700-1840
https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/research/urban-and-industrial-change-in-the-midlands
The University of Leicester's Leverhulme Trust Research Grant for the Urban and Industrial Change in the Midlands 1700-1840 project.
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New approach will help identify drugs that can ‘glue’ proteins together
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/glue-proteins
A new screening method that can test the effectiveness of therapeutic molecules designed to ‘glue’ proteins together in the body has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham and the University of Leicester.
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Expedition 313: New Jersey Shelf
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2009-10/new-jersey
April 2009 continuing to July 2009 Unravelling global sea level changes from the effects of subsidence and sediment supply requires a fundamental understanding of passive margin sedimentation.
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HeadStart+ Programme
https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/short-courses/headstart
The HeadStart+ Programme is a two week online preparation course aimed at giving international students training in key academic skills in preparation for university study in the UK.
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School of Engineering
https://le.ac.uk/engineering
Engineering at Leicester is internationally renowned for research and teaching, and has links with many of the world's major engineering companies.