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Europeans have shaped what we think of as being quintessentially English
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/europeans-have-shaped-what-we-think-of-as-quintessentially-english
Immigrants from Europe have, for centuries, played a vital role in shaping British culture as well as our perception of what we think as quintessentially ‘English’ or ‘Scottish’.
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University cited by Leicester MP in European Union membership debate
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/university-cited-by-leicester-mp-in-european-union-membership-debate
Our University has been cited in a European Union membership debate in the House of Commons by Leicester West and Labour MP, Liz Kendall, on 15 June.
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Launch of unique forensic courses at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/launch-of-unique-forensic-courses-at-leicester
New forensic courses are to be launched at our University and will be the first of their type in the UK. The postgraduate courses are housed in the East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit and Imaging Unit, global pioneers in the field of post-mortem computed tomography imaging.
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Pioneering a New Method for Investigating the Neural Correlates of Ageing Effects during Natural Reading
https://le.ac.uk/ageing-and-reading
Find out more about the Pioneering a New Method for Investigating the Neural Correlates of Ageing Effects during Natural Reading at the University of Leicester.
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Study
https://le.ac.uk/politics/study
The School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester is a thriving, dynamic and friendly place. Politics has been taught at Leicester since the 1940s and we have always been at the cutting edge of British political science.
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Project overview
https://le.ac.uk/esrc-reading-goals-project/project-overview
Find out more about the ESRC Reading Goals Project at the University of Leicester.
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/research
Members of the Centre have undertaken research on topics as diverse as the nineteenth-century afterlives of Romantic poets, the discourse of the sublime in poetry, art and criticism, and Victorian theatre - to name but a few.
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/health-sciences/research
We are structured to support innovative multidisciplinary and multi-method solutions to research questions. In Health Sciences, we conduct high quality scientific research that informs policies and practices aimed at securing people's health and well-being.
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Information about the University
https://le.ac.uk/about/info
Find out about the University of Leicester: where we came from, where we are now, where we’re going and how we’re getting there – including goals we've achieved and awards we've won.
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When does colder mean hotter
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/explaining-the-increasing-temperature-of-cooling-granular-gases
Professor Nikolai Brilliantov from our Department of Mathematics has developed a theory to explain ‘heating by cooling’, where the temperature of a granular gas increases while the total energy drops down - a peculiar phenomenon which can be observed both on Earth...