Search
-
Gaia Data Release 3: New space data serves as ‘complete step change’ in understanding of our Universe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/gaia-dr3
Space scientists have today (Monday) announced the discovery of a ‘super Jupiter’ orbiting a white dwarf, the first detected using direct observations with the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Gaia mission.
-
Foxes, University of Leicester and King Power strike Thailand agreement
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/foxes-university-leicester-king-power-strike-thailand-agreement
University of Leicester and King Power strengthen ties with Thailand through a new agreement, enhancing global collaboration in education, sport, and community impact.
-
Award for graduate who returned to lead the University of Leicester’s governing body
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/july/award-graduate-gary-dixon-lead-university-leicester-governing-body
A University of Leicester graduate who progressed to leading the institution’s governing body has been honoured.
-
Leicester diabetes figures up by a third in five years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/leicester-diabetes-figures-up-by-a-third-in-five-years
The number of adults in Leicester with diabetes has risen by 33 per cent in the last five years, according to new figures.
-
Tradition meets AI as Leicester scientists help tackle Amazonian biodiversity crisis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/tradition-ai-leicester-scientists-amazonian-biodiversity-crisis
Scientists led by University of Leicester working with universities in Brazil will support traditional communities to monitor biodiversity in the Amazon, developing an AI toolkit to catalogue local knowledge and understanding
-
Leicester partners with Thailand with support of Thai Prime Minister, British Ambassador and Leicester City Football Club
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/leicester-partners-with-thai-prime-minister-british-ambassador-leicester-city-football-club
The University of Leicester has marked its commitment to Thailand and Vietnam through a series of partnership agreements that will pave the way for Thai students to study in Leicester, open the door to research collaborations and promote bilateral knowledge exchange.
-
Prestigious accolade for health inequalities team
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/kamlesh-ethnic-minority-national-award
A team including representatives from the University of Leicester working to tackle health inequalities for ethnic minority groups has won a national award
-
University of Leicester granted Freedom of the Borough by Oadby & Wigston Borough Council
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/freedom-of-borough
At an extraordinary meeting of full council on Tuesday 30 March, Oadby & Wigston Borough Council granted the University of Leicester Honorary Freedom of the Borough and bestowed the title of Honorary Freeman upon the University - the highest honour the Borough can bestow.
-
BBC commissions Leicester artist to mark ‘Culture in Quarantine’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/spectrum-sounds-bbc-commission
Professor Hugill directs the Creative Computing programme at the University of Leicester and is an Honorary Creative Fellow at the Attenborough Arts Centre, as well as sitting on its Advisory Board. He also leads the AHRC-funded ‘Aural Diversity’ project.
-
Theses
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/study/postgraduate/dissertations-and-theses/phd-theses
2021 GREENHOWE, Priscilla. "I do belong to Mattishall': Obtaining poor relief from Mattishall, Norfolk, c. 1750-1834 2020 BATMAN, Phil. A comparison of kinship family survival in York and in the nineteenth century. MITCHELL, Chris.