Search
-
Academic cited among Britains most influential people
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/academic-cited-among-britains-most-influential-people
Professor Helen Atkinson CBE (pictured), Head of the Department of Engineering, has been cited among the Debrett’s 500 most influential people in Britain.
-
East Midlands Policing Academic Collaboration launch
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/east-midlands-policing-academic-collaboration-launch
The University of Leicester has joined a new collaboration of seven universities, five police forces and five Police and Crime Commissioners looking at how academics and the police can work more closely to shape the future of policing.
-
350 Years Ago Pepys and the Easter of 1666
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/350-years-ago-pepys-and-the-easter-of-1666
350 years ago, on the Easter of 1666, famous diarist Samuel Pepys recorded how he failed to join a Church of England service at the Chapel in Whitehall Palace as it was too crowded over the festive period.
-
New research project to compare experiences of violence homicide and mental health among sex workers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-research-project-to-compare-experiences-of-violence-homicide-and-mental-health-among-sex-workers
Professor Teela Sanders and Dr Rosie Campbell OBE from the Department of Criminology have written an article for Think: Leicester discussing their new research project and the significance of International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, which...
-
Exhibition showcases fascinating relationship between India and Britain between 17th and 20th centuries
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/exhibition-showcases-exhibition-showcases-2018fascinating-relationship2019-between-india-and-britain-between-17th-and-20th-centuries
An exhibition running at our University traces the history of the British in India from the early 17th century to the turn of the 20th.
-
University of Leicester experts appointed to prestigious panel on harassment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/10-vc-appointment
The University of Leicester’s incoming Vice-Chancellor Professor Nishan Canagarajah and leading expert on hate crime Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy will sit on an elite board to tackle racial harassment in higher education.
-
Free public talk on climate change
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/18-climate-change-talk
Climate/atmospheric scientist Katherine Hayhoe famously said that the most important thing you can do (right now) to fight climate change is to talk about it.
-
Improving mental health services for vulnerable refugee children
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/improving-mental-health-services-for-vulnerable-refugee-children
The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH) is staging a Refugee Children and Mental Health Masterclass on Thursday 17 May, delivered by Professor Panos Vostanis from our School of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour.
-
Dawn of the Anthropocene concept
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/dawn-of-the-anthropocene-concept
Can the Anthropocene concept be traced back to the Comte de Buffon, a famed savant of the ancien régime of France? The evidence is made widely available for the first time with the first full English translation of Buffon’s concise masterpiece The Epochs of Nature,...
-
International recognition for world-first virtual autopsy courses
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/21-recognition-for-virtual-autopsy-courses
Forensic imaging courses from the East Midlands Pathology Unit are first to be accredited by international professional body.