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• AI-powered research tackles healthcare inequality for people with learning disabilities  

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/midland-report-ai-health-outcomes

  A new report by the Academy of Social Sciences has showcased research by the University of Leicester and led by Loughborough University on using artificial intelligence to tackle healthcare inequality.

• Leicester professor receives King’s honour for services to healthcare

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/liz-draper

  A University of Leicester professor who has devoted her life to research into the health and wellbeing of babies and children has been honoured by the King

• The video game: a legitimate art form?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/video-game

  Read the article "The video game: a legitimate art form?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• Pioneering new research revolutionises early detection of TB

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/19-tb-masks

  Researchers at the University of Leicester and the University of Pretoria are revolutionising the way tuberculosis (TB) is diagnosed through the invention of a 3D printed insert added to a simple face mask, which has the potential to save millions of lives across the world...

• Leicester rehabilitation programmes highlighted by national charity

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/06-leicester-rehabilitation-programmes-highlighted-national-charity

  Two initiatives developed at Leicester’s Hospitals have been cited in the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) new five-point plan to achieve the biggest impact for people with, or at risk of, heart and circulatory diseases.

• Leicester receives record Turing Scheme funding

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/turing

  Having secured its largest-ever single grant for overseas mobility in 2023, Leicester has once more successfully bid for Turing funding to support outbound student mobility.

• The forgotten success of penal transportation reform in late Imperial Russia: the lowering of prison

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/08/the-forgotten-success-of-penal-transportation-reform-in-late-imperial-russia-the-lowering-of-prisoner-mortality-in-the-transfer-system-1885-1915/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 8, 2016 By Mikhail Nakonechny . The late Imperial Russian prison and exile system is almost unequivocally considered to be the traditional embodiment of brutality, institutional inhumanity and injustice.

• Mathematical and Computational Modelling

  https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/research/groups/mathematical-and-computational-modelling

  The research performed in the group of Mathematical and Computational Modelling aims at creating new accurate and efficient models for simulating a variety of natural, engineered, and conceptual systems.

• Light exposure could hold the key to a good night’s sleep

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/fruit-fly-sleep-disorders-leicester

  Light signals processed through the eyes helps regulate sleep in fruit flies, and disrupting those visual pathways causes abnormal sleep patterns, a new study by Leicester experts shows.

• Supporting you

  https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/mature-students/supporting-you

  As a mature student, you will have access to all the same support, guidance and help as our other students - plus some additional, dedicated support.