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• £5 million grant for health science PhD students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/16-wellcome-grant

  The University of Leicester has been awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of over £5 million. The grant will enable the University to support 40 genomic epidemiology and public health genomics PhD students beginning in the 2020/21 academic year.

• Conference shows how empathy can help patients and healthcare professionals

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/empathy-conference-leicester-patients

  A major conference in Leicester has shown how using empathy in healthcare consultations can improve outcomes for both patients and clinicians

• Groundbreaking international empathy conference will return

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/empathy-conference-network-leicester

  A pioneering network dedicated to championing the use of empathy in healthcare consultations has confirmed its groundbreaking international conference will return in 2027.

• First skeletal evidence of leprosy in British red squirrels revealed by University of Leicester study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/skeletal-evidence-leprosy-british-red-squirrels-university-leicester

  The first-ever skeletal evidence of leprosy in British red squirrels has been identified in a University of Leicester-led study.

• Past PhD projects

  https://le.ac.uk/medieval/study/research-degrees/past-phd-projects

  Browse the list of past medieval PhD projects undertaken at the University of Leicester. Thesis topics range across the whole of the Middle Ages and also across the full range of disciplines represented within the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.

• Work Opportunities

  https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/study/undergraduate/work-opportunities

  Page describing opportunities for undergraduate chemists to gain paid research experience during their degree studies.

• Unravelling the Minion genome

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/unravelling-the-2018minion2019-genome

  Based on what we know of the minions from the popular Despicable Me films – and the Minions movie current playing at cinemas – they could, in theory, have a complex genetic make-up similar to humans, according to Natural Sciences students Krisho Manoharan and Ruth Sang Jones.

• Psychology students complete placement in Sri Lanka

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-students-complete-mental-health-placement-in-sri-lanka

  Over the summer, two Leicester students travelled to Sri Lanka to undertake a voluntary Mental Health Placement with SLV, a graduate-led volunteering organisation, which runs psychology-focused placements in Sri Lanka and also in Bali, Indonesia.

• Fellowship award will allow Leicester researcher to launch genetic study of lung disease

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/fellowship-leicester-researcher-genetic-lung-disease

  A University of Leicester researcher has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Career Development Fellowship to lead a groundbreaking study into the genomics of bronchiectasis.

• Films released to drive forward empathic healthcare education

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/empathy-healthcare-education-films-leicester

  Films featuring three leading empathic healthcare experts sharing their knowledge with healthcare professionals and researchers in Leicester have been released online