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  • Address misinformation and mistrust to help tackle COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in healthcare workers, study suggests

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/uk-reach-vaccine-hesitancy

    Addressing misinformation and mistrust, inclusive communication, involving healthcare workers in the vaccine rollout, and promoting vaccination through trusted networks could play an important role in helping to tackle vaccine hesitancy amongst healthcare workers from ethnic...

  • Environment scientists close in on ‘golden spike’ to define Anthropocene

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/anthropocene-berlin

    Leicester researchers searching for a ‘golden spike’ to formally define humanity’s current geological period – and acknowledge human impact on our planet – have announced a major step in their analysis at an international conference today (Wednesday).

  • Senate Regulation 5: Regulations governing undergraduate programmes of study (2025/26 onwards)

    https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-5/2025-26-study

    Read Senate Regulation 5: Regulations governing undergraduate programmes of study (2025/26 onwards).

  • Leicester study to improve crop plants

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-study-to-improve-crop-plants

    Dr James Higgins (pictured) from the Department of Genetics has been awarded a New Investigator grant (£450,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication.

  • £2m study - ethnicity and COVID-19 in healthcare workers

    https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/covid-uk-reach

    UK-REACH will investigate data held by national healthcare organisations to understand what the risk of having, and dying from, COVID-19 is for ethnic minority healthcare works.

  • Origins of Pepyss famous diary unravelled

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/origins-of-pepys2019s-famous-diary-unravelled

    The diary of the seventeenth-century cultural icon Samuel Pepys - which contains references to bribery, illicit sex, and criticisms of powerful men – has an enduring legacy, and Dr Kate Loveman from the School of English will be unravelling why it was written at an event at...

  • Charles Phythian-Adams

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/charles-phythian-adams

    We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Emeritus Professor Charles Phythian-Adams, former Head of the Department of English Local History (now the Centre for Regional and Local History), who passed away on 13 May 2025.

  • The hunt for the Christmas meteorite

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/the-hunt-for-the-christmas-meteorite

    An article by the BBC discussing a 4.5bn-year 'Christmas meteorite' - the biggest to hit the UK - which crashed on Christmas Eve, 1965, in the village of Barwell in Leicestershire has quoted Dr Leigh Fletcher from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

  • Alex Keller

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/alex-keller

    The University has learned, with regret, of the death of Professor Alex Keller who taught history of science and technology at Leicester 1963-1997.

  • Partners

    https://le.ac.uk/joe-orton/about/partners

    Find out more about the partners for the Joe Orton: 50 Years On project. Including: Curve theatre, Leicester; the National Justice Museum in Nottingham; and the Arts Council, England.

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