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Rapid spread of a meningitis bacteria linked to hypermutable sequences helping avoidance of the immune system
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/26-meningitis-bacteria-spread-avoidance-immune-system
An enhanced potential to avoid the human immune system has been found in recent serogroup W isolates of Neisseria meningitidis by University of Leicester researchers, which may explain in part why the strain spread so rapidly among young people in 2013.
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Cervical cancer research receives important boost
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/cervical-cancer-research-receives-important-boost
A prospective research programme in Leicester to improve the lives of women who have undergone treatment for cervical cancer has received a cash injection.
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Spotlight on SLAIDER -- Self-learning AI-based digital twins for accelerating clinical care in respiratory emergency admissions
https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/research/life-health-sciences/slaider
SLAIDER is a £620k project running from 2023 to 2025 and funded by the EPSRC. To provide more context on the project, the team was asked several questions about SLAIDER and how it could impact real-life clinical care.
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UK scientific expertise supports first high-resolution fossil coral record of environmental data off Hawai’i
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/hawaii-coral
UK-based scientist from the University of St Andrews and scientific operators from the British Geological Survey and the University of Leicester among international team of scientists that collected and analysed 426 metres of cores from fossilised coral reefs of the coast of...
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Staff projects
https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/research/projects/staff-projects
Take a look at projects being undertaken by staff at the University of Leicester's Stanley Burton Centre for Holocause and Genocide Studies.
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Oral history projects in Nottinghamshire
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/directory-of-oral-history/east-midlands/nottinghamshire
Browse projects and oral history materials from Nottinghamshire, including the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender history project, which is now part of the Rainbow Heritage website.
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Project updates
https://le.ac.uk/insular-manuscripts/project-updates
News and updates from the Insular Manuscripts team including workshops and involvement in major British Library exhibitions.
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Survey investigates freelance creative practitioners and austerity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/survey-investigates-freelance-creative-practitioners-and-austerity
Arts organisations are adapting to austerity measures but the challenges of freelance arts and cultural workers have been overlooked despite making up a significant proportion of the arts sector workforce, according to Leicester researchers.
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Multi-million-pound investment in a regional cryo-electron microscope facility at our University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/multi-million-pound-investment-in-a-regional-cryo-electron-microscope-facility-at-our-university
Our University has led a successful bid, in partnership with the Universities of Warwick, Nottingham and Birmingham to establish a state-of-the-art Midlands regional cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) facility based at Leicester.
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Older dissertations
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/study/postgraduate/dissertations-and-theses/older-dissertations
2010 BOWEN, J. A landscape of improvement: the impact of James Loch, chief agent to the Marquis of Stafford on the Lilleshall estate, Shropshire, 1720-1820. DAVIDSON, E. The evolution and secularisation of the funeral in Leicester and Leicestershire, 1830-2010.