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Over £300,000 funding to fuel university boost to region’s innovation ecosystem
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/innovation-ecosystem-funding
University of Leicester to lead a partnership with Loughborough University and De Montfort University and Leicester Start Ups to benefit innovation within Leicester and Leicestershire
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New £10.4 million research centre will unlock new tests, treatments and cures for people living with rare kidney diseases
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/lifearc
Thousands of people living with rare kidney disease will have access to improved diagnostics, treatments and potentially cures, thanks to the creation of a new research centre, involving experts from the University of Leicester
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Space scientists reveal secret behind Jupiter’s ‘energy crisis’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/jupiter-energy-crisis
New research published in Nature has revealed the solution to Jupiter’s ‘energy crisis’, which has puzzled astronomers for decades.
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Earth observation images reveal extent of ferocious forest fires in Siberia
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/siberian-fires
According to Russia’s forestry agency, this year’s fires have ravaged more than 14m hectares, making it the second-worst fire season since the turn of the century.
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Major £1.7m funding to clean up Philippines mineral extraction
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/promt
Leicester researchers have been awarded part of a £1.7 million grant for their work in reducing the environmental impact of mineral extraction in the Philippines.
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Hidden inscriptions hint at mystery medieval woman’s identity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/insular-manuscript-medieval-inscriptions
Drawings and the name ‘Eadburg’ found scratched into early medieval manuscript by University of Leicester PhD student.
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University of Leicester politics expert to be embedded in UK Parliament
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/rick-whitaker
Dr Rick Whitaker, Associate Professor in European Politics, is one of three UK academics to be seconded to Parliament as a Thematic Research Lead.
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Most distant detection of a black hole swallowing a star
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/black-hole-swallowing-star
A University of Leicester astronomer has led an international team that determined the distance of the furthest black hole consuming a star detected to date.
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University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor joins Prime Minister’s trade delegation to India
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/university-leicester-vice-chancellor-prime-minister-trade-delegation-india
University of Leicester Vice-Chancellor Professor Nishan Canagarajah joined a delegation of 125 of the UK’s most prominent CEOs, entrepreneurs, university and cultural leaders on a trade mission to India spearheaded by Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
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Museums and social justice – and why I bang on about it quite a lot.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2018/04/12/museums-and-social-justice-and-why-i-bang-on-about-it-quite-a-lot/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 12, 2018 This week marked the 73 rd anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. Between 1937 and 1945, 280,000 people were imprisoned there.