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Departmental prizes
https://le.ac.uk/english/study/departmental-prizes
English offers the following undergraduate and postgraduate prizes after our Boards of Examiners at the end of each academic year. G. S. Fraser Prize Winner of a poetry competition adjudicated by staff in English.
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Leicester scholar’s Bible ushers in new royal chapter (and verse)
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/coronation-bible-king-james
The Quatercentenary Edition of the King James Bible, prepared by University of Leicester academic Professor Gordon Campbell in 2011, will be used for the King's Coronation Oath.
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Forensic analysis using micro-CT
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/forensic-analysis
The forensic analysis of the Greyfriars bones by micro-computer X-ray tomography (micro-CT) is the first time that this advanced technique has been applied to an archaeological investigation and was crucial to the investigation.
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Swap a component
https://le.ac.uk/training-guides/components/swap
Swap a component in Sitecore.
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Section 1 - Definitions
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/documents/statutes/definitions
Read Section 1 of our Statutes, entitled Definitions. This section defines the terms used in the Statutes and their specific meaning within the context of the Statutes.
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Knowing where to look
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/knowing-where-to-look
Whilst nothing of the friary remains above ground today, its site has never actually been lost, despite one early map of Leicester, the 1610 Speed map, getting its location wrong.
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Bradgate Park Fieldschool Season 5 2019
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/people-and-places/bradgate-park-fieldschool/season-5-2019
The fifth season of the Bradgate Park Fieldschool ran from the 20th May to the 5th July 2019, with a public open day on the 29th June. This year, we focussed on two areas of excavation: Bradgate House and a possible medieval settlement to the east.
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Rankings
https://le.ac.uk/about/info/facts-figures/rankings
Find out where we rank in various higher education league tables, and get further information on rankings for research and teaching.
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Our building
https://le.ac.uk/engineering/about/building
The Engineering Building at the University of Leicester is widely regarded as one of the most architecturally important buildings of its era.
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Astronomers see “warm” glow of Uranus’s rings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/21-uranus-rings-alma-vlt
The rings of Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes — they weren’t even discovered until 1977 — and they stand out as surprisingly bright in new heat images of the planet taken by two large telescopes in the high deserts of Chile.