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Our research in the fight against COVID-19
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/covid-showcase
Our COVID-19 research has cemented our status as world leaders in the fight against coronavirus.
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The father of DNA fingerprinting pays tribute to a team effort
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/dna-technicians
The man who discovered DNA genetic fingerprinting has paid tribute to two of his former University of Leicester colleagues who played a key role in the scientific breakthrough.
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Cooking Inauthentically: An Experiment with Flaounes – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/04/07/cooking-inauthentically-an-experiment-with-flaounes/
Deborah Toner, the Project's PI, describes her first experience of cooking flaounes, a celebration Easter food from Cyprus, the challenge of finding "authentic" ingredients and the sense of occasion created by making a celebration food.
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Guidance for students
https://le.ac.uk/brexit/students
We know that students at the University of Leicester are uncertain about how they will be affected by Brexit. We are committed to supporting all our students throughout this period of change.
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Publications
https://le.ac.uk/cehs/publications
2024 – 2025 Jephcote C, Gulliver J, Development and evaluation of rapid, national-scale outdoor air pollution modelling and exposure assessment: Hybrid Air Dispersion Exposure System (HADES), Environment International, Volume 197,2025,109304,ISSN 0160-4120,...
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Educational policy and practice: how ‘evidence-based’ can or should it be?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/06/12/500/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 12, 2017 ‘On the research side, evidence-based education seems to favour a technocratic model in which it is assumed that the only relevant research questions are questions about...
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Laura Gray
https://le.ac.uk/people/laura-gray
The academic profile of Professor Laura Gray, Professor of Medical Statistics, Departmental Research Director, Co-Lead Biostatistics Research Group at University of Leicester
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Machine learning reveals clues to improved weather forecasting in our atmosphere
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/weather-patterns
Inspired by statistical mechanics, scientists co-led by University of Leicester applied algorithms designed to study molecules to atmospheric data and identified patterns in atmospheric fields that give clues to when weather variations will occur
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History of Sex and Crime in Wales
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/history-of-sex-and-crime-in-wales
History of sex and crime in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Wales
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First Cowrie Scholar excited to shine ‘positive light’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/cowrie
The first recipient of a Cowrie Foundation Scholarship at the University of Leicester designed to provide opportunities for talented Black British students has described her excitement at becoming a role model to a new generation of students.