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Research highlights both the determinants and consequences of financial fragility in low income countries
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/research-highlights-both-the-determinants-and-consequences-of-financial-fragility-in-low-income-countries
A team of researchers from the Universities of Leicester and Aston will be revealing the novel findings of a successful ESRC-DFID bid into financial fragility and recommend ways to promote stability in low income countries at a conference on Friday 28 October.
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Artificial Intelligence
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/commissions/artificial-intelligence
Read more about the Centre's commissioned piece which explores ideas of distrust surrounding artificial intelligence. The piece was commissioned to combat those thoughts of trust and to explore how we can embrace technology in society.
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“We must celebrate”: England’s World Cup win 50 years on
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/07/29/we-must-celebrate-englands-world-cup-win-50-years-on/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on July 29, 2016 On 30 July 1966 England won the World Cup.
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Leicester Centre for Mental Health Workshop to take place
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/university-of-leicester-joins-forced-with-de-montfort-university-and-leicester-partnership-trust-to-organise-workshop-on-the-leicester-centre-for-mental-health
Our University is involved with a new initiative to strengthen Mental Health research and education. In collaboration with De Montfort University and Leicester Partnership Trust, a workshop has been organised to take place on 13 October.
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Renowned street artist creates ghostimage of famous playwright Joe Orton in library
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/renowned-street-artist-creates-ghost-image-of-famous-playwright-joe-orton-in-library
A renowned street artist has spray-painted a ‘ghost image’ of playwright Joe Orton in our Library – which he hopes will encourage people to reflect on the legacy of the writer.
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How a technological revolution is helping us to understand the human Y chromosome
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/how-a-technological-revolution-is-helping-us-to-understand-the-human-y-chromosome
Professor Mark Jobling (pictured) from the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology has published a new review in Nature Reviews Genetics with a colleague from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge which examines the properties of the human Y chromosome and...
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Advanced Digital, AI and Manufacturing Technologies for Space: The second phase of Space Park Leicester is completed
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/spl-phase-2
Professor Richard Ambrosi, Professor of Space Instrumentation and Space Nuclear Power Systems at the University of Leicester, said: “We are extremely proud of completing phase two of this project.
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Free online course offers unique insights into the time of Richard III
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/free-online-course-offers-unique-insights-into-the-time-of-richard-iii
As the second anniversary of the reinterment of Richard III approaches in March, our University is relaunching its highly popular online course that explores what it was really like to live in the world of the last Plantagenet King.
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Research suggests greater access to Higher Education could have reversed EU referendum result
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/research-suggests-greater-access-to-higher-education-could-have-reversed-eu-referendum-result
Greater access to Higher Education could have reversed the result of the 2016 EU referendum, according to new research from our Department of Mathematics.
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Professor Henrietta O'Connor appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of College
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/15-henrietta-o-connor-new-pro-vc-head-of-college
The University of Leicester is delighted to announce that Professor Henrietta O'Connor has been appointed to the role leading the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.