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Prejudice & Pride: exploring LGBTQ lives at the National Trust
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/prejudice-and-pride
This research project enriched and informed the National Trust’s 2017 programme that marked 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality.
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Green Energy and Transport
https://le.ac.uk/engineering/research/green-energy-and-transport
The School of Engineering is actively involved in the push towards Net Zero Energy and Transportation Systems. Learn more about the staff, and the activities undertaken in the School.
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Antarctica’s irregular heartbeat shows signs of rapid melting
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/ice-sheets
Geoscientists led by Universities of Leicester and Southampton create new climate record for early Antarctic ice ages and reveal that the early Antarctic ice sheet melted more rapidly than previously thought
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Leicester celebrates British Science Week with top five innovations
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/innovations
The University of Leicester is celebrating this year’s theme for British Science Week (5-14 March 2021), ‘Innovating for the Future’, by highlighting the top five innovations pioneered at the University.
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New Leicester education centre to provide opportunities for city’s young people
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/intouni
Young people in Leicester will have a greater chance of realising their ambitions thanks to a new education centre in the city.
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Spring into the new year with Attenborough Arts Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/attenborough-arts-spring
Read more about the Attenborough Arts Centre's new spring exhibitions, performances, workshops and other events.
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National Space Centre celebrates 20 years in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/space-centre-20
The concept of the National Space Centre was first drawn up in 1994, and soon grew into a joint bid by the University of Leicester and Leicester City Council to the Millennium Commission as a Landmark Millennium Project for the East Midlands.
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The Leicester policy expert making a difference in Parliament
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/rick-whitaker
Rick Whitaker, Professor of Politics at the University of Leicester, is bringing his research to Parliament thanks to his special advisor role.
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Professor Heiko Balzter shares hopes for COP29 and the path toward global climate action
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/cop29-heiko
Professor Heiko Balzter, Director of the Institute for Environmental Futures, speaks as he attends COP29 on behalf of the University of Leicester
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New poll reveals 8 out of 10 students rate university ‘learning experience’ as most important
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/post-covid-survey
New research commissioned by the University of Leicester has revealed how post-COVID, ‘learning experience’ matters most to students (82%), followed by ‘gaining independence’ (78%), green open spaces (78%), and mental health and wellbeing (64%).