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Paul Herrington (1939-2019)
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/paul-herrington
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Paul Herrington, a member of the University’s Economics (and latterly Geography) Departments for over 40 years. Paul grew up in South London and then Essex.
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Sue Lee
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sue-lee
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Researcher wins Newton Fund Grant for Disasters and Development Research Network
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/researcher-wins-newton-fund-grant-for-disasters-and-development-research-network
A new project led by Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong from the Department of Media and Communication seeks to explore how media and communication technologies can be used during disasters as well as promote social welfare in the developing world.
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Engineering
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/supervision/engineering
Find your research degree supervisor in Engineering at Leicester.
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Babies born at the limits of viability
https://le.ac.uk/timms/research/babies-viability
Only 1 in 500 babies are born before 24 weeks' of pregnancy however, they make up around a fifth of all baby deaths. This work aims to improve care for babies born at this extremely early stage of pregnancy particularly around consistent determination of signs of life
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Drying Congo peatlands threaten to accelerate climate change
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/congo-cop27
Study reveals how the Congo peatlands changed from being a major store of carbon to a source of damaging carbon dioxide emissions.
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University of Leicester ranked in UK top three for COVID-19 research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/leicester-ranked-in-uk-top-three-for-covid-19-research
Leicester has been ranked as one of the top performing universities in the UK for COVID-19 research.
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The ‘Learning Outcomes Project’: update on activities – University of Leicester.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2014/11/24/projupdate/
The 'Learning Outcomes Project' at the University of Leicester. The 'Learning Outcomes Project': update on activities.
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Supporting student learning in 2020-21: avoiding a common misstep
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2020/06/04/supporting-student-learning-in-2020-21-avoiding-a-common-misstep/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 4, 2020 One if the many important questions to have arisen during the current pandemic, is how we can effectively induct and orient students into new ways and, indeed, new modes of...
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Up to a third of people with type 2 diabetes not taking prescriptions properly
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/05-type-2-diabetes-prescriptions
Leicester researchers have used a unique screening approach to suggest that nearly a third of people with type 2 diabetes may be putting their health at risk because they are not taking their medications correctly.