University of Leicester seen from Victoria Park - Left to right: the Department of Engineering, the Attenborough tower, the Charles Wilson building.

The University of Leicester is a research led university based in Leicester, England, with approximately eighteen thousand registered students - about ten thousand of them full-time students, and six thousand of them distance-learning students. The main campus is about a mile south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park and Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College. Image File history File links Np_unilogo. ... For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... A Chancellor is the head of a university. ... Sir Peter Michael Williams, CBE, FRS (born 1945) is a British physicist. ... A Vice-Chancellor (commonly called the VC) of a university in the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and some universities in Hong Kong, is the de facto head of the university. ... A Visitor, in United Kingdom law and history, is an overseer of an autonomous ecclesiastical or eleemosynary institution (i. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ... This article is about work. ... For other uses, see Student (disambiguation). ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... This article discusses Leicester in England. ... The 1994 Group is a coalition of smaller research-intensive universities founded to defend their interests after the larger research-intensive universities founded the Russell Group. ... AMBA, the Association of MBAs, is a UK based organization that accredits Doctor of Business Administration, MBA and MSc in management programs of international business schools. ... The European University Association (EUA) is the main voice of the higher education community in Europe. ... The Association of Commonwealth Universities represents over 480 universities from Commonwealth countries. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1994x798, 270 KB) Summary Taken by User:Andrew Norman, Sept 2003 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1994x798, 270 KB) Summary Taken by User:Andrew Norman, Sept 2003 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... This article discusses Leicester in England. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Victoria Park, Leicester Victoria Park in Leicester, England is a public park of 69 acres (279,000 m²). It is in the south-east, just outside the city centre, backing on to the University of Leicester and close to the Leicester railway station. ... Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, or Q.E is a sixth form college in Leicester, England. ...

History

The University was founded as Leicestershire and Rutland College in 1918. The site for the University was donated by a local textile manufacturer, Thomas Fielding Johnson, in order to create a living memorial for those who lost their lives in World War I. This is reflected in the University's motto Ut Vitam Habeant — 'so that they may have life'. The central building, now known as the Fielding Johnson building and housing the University's administration offices and Faculty of Law, dates from 1837 and was formerly the Leicestershire and Rutland Lunatic Asylum. “The Great War ” redirects here. ...

Students were first admitted to the college in 1921. In 1927, after it became University College, Leicester, students sat the examinations for external degrees of the University of London. In 1957 the college was granted its Royal Charter, and has since then had the status of a University with the right to award its own degrees. The University won the first ever series of University Challenge, in 1963. Website http://www. ... For the ship of the same name, see Royal Charter (ship). ... University Challenge is a long-running British television quiz show, licensed and produced by Granada Television. ...

Organisation

The University is organised into five faculties.

• Faculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Social Sciences (expanded in 2004 to include the Faculty of Education)

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Academic achievements

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Science

The University of Leicester is one of the 1994-Group research universities. [1] The University has scientific research groups in the areas of astrophysics, biochemistry and genetics. The techniques used in Genetic fingerprinting were invented and developed at Leicester in 1985 by Sir Alec Jeffreys. It also houses Europe's biggest academic centre for space research, in which space probes have been built, most notably the Mars Lander Beagle 2, which was built in collaboration with the Open University. A Leicester built instrument has been operating in space every year since 1967. Leicester Physicists (led by Professor Ken Pounds) were critical in proving a fundamental law of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity - that black holes exist and are common in the universe. It is a founding partner of the £52 million National Space Centre. In total Leicester has the highest research income of any non Russell Group institution in the UK. The University of Leicester is one of a small number of Universities to have won the prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education on more than one occasion: in 1994 for physics & astronomy and again in 2002 for genetics. The Guardian's 2008 University Guide, published in 2007, ranked Leicester 2nd in the UK for Physics and 8th for Mathematics. Spiral Galaxy ESO 269-57 Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties (luminosity, density, temperature, and chemical composition) of celestial objects such as stars, galaxies, and the interstellar medium, as well as their interactions. ... Wöhler observes the synthesis of urea. ... This article is about the general scientific term. ... Genetic fingerprinting, DNA testing, DNA typing, and DNA profiling are techniques used to distinguish between individuals of the same species using only samples of their DNA. Its invention by Dr. Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester was announced in 1985. ... Professor Sir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS, (born in 9 January 1950 at Luton in Bedfordshire) is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling. ... Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the solar system, named after the Roman god of war (the counterpart of the Greek Ares), on account of its blood red color as viewed in the night sky. ... Beagle 2 was an unsuccessful British landing spacecraft that formed part of the European Space Agencys 2003 Mars Express mission. ... Affiliations Alliance of Non-Aligned Universities, Association of Commonwealth Universities, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Website http://www. ... Einstein redirects here. ... -1... This article is about the astronomical body. ... For other uses, see Universe (disambiguation). ... The National Space Centre in Leicester The National Space Centre is one of the United Kingdoms leading visitor attractions devoted to space science and astronomy. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Queens Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education is a biennially awarded series of prizes awarded to Universities and Colleges in the further and higher education sectors within the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Guardian. ...

The campus - Fielding Johnson Building on the left, Ken Edwards building on the right.

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Arts, humanities and social sciences

Literary connections include Kingsley Amis, who is believed to have partially based his Campus novel Lucky Jim on Leicester University. Amis is alleged to have been inspired to write the book when visiting his friend Phillip Larkin who was working at the university as a librarian at the time. Malcolm Bradbury also used Leicester as a basis for his satire on university life The History Man. More recently, novelist Adele Parks graduated from the university in the 1990's, and the university library now holds the writings of both Joe Orton and Sue Townsend. Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. ... Christine (Sharon Acker) and Jim (Ian Carmichael) in a cab Lucky Jim is a comic novel written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954. ... Philip Arthur Larkin (August 9, 1922 – December 2, 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. ... 1867 edition of Punch, a ground-breaking British magazine of popular humour, including a good deal of satire of the contemporary social and political scene. ... The History Man (1975) is a campus novel by British author Malcolm Bradbury set in 1972 in the fictional seaside town of Watermouth in the South of England. ... Adele Parks is one the biggest selling women’s fiction authors in the UK. Parks was born in north-east England and studied English at the University of Leicester. ... Joe Orton Joe Orton (Born: John Kingsley Orton 1 January 1933, Leicester, England. ... Susan Lillian Sue Townsend (born April 2, 1946) is the author of the Adrian Mole series of books. ...

The Centre for Mass Communication Research, now part of the Department of Media and Communications, is one of the longest established academic centres at Leicester, engaging in pioneering research in the 1970s and 80s and now specializing in Masters courses, as does the Department of Museum Studies, in terms of both campus-based and distance-learning MAs.

The School of Historical Studies at Leicester is, with 35 full time members of staff, including 11 Professors at current, one of the largest of any university in the country. It is has made considerable scholarly achievements in many areas of history, notably Urban History, English Local History, American Studies and Holocaust Studies. [2] The School houses both the East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) [3] and the Media Archive for Central England (MACE) MACE.

The Department of English is one of the UK’s leading providers of English at degree level. The Guardian's 2008 University Guide, published in 2007, ranked Leicester 7th in the UK for English and 2nd for American Studies. The department comprises 25 members of staff, including 8 Professors, and committed to offering the whole spectrum of English Studies from Contemporary Writing to Old English and language studies. Malcolm Bradbury is one of the Department's most famous alumni: he graduated with a First in English in 1953. For other uses, see Guardian. ...

The School of Archaeology and Ancient History is likewise one of the UK's largest, and highest-ranked, departments in its two subjects. It was formed in 1990 from the former Departments of Archaeology and Classics, under the headship of Professor Graeme Barker (now Disney Professor at Cambridge). The current Head of School is Professor Colin Haselgrove. The current academic staff comprises 5 professors, 3 readers, 4 senior lecturers, and 12 lecturers. Of these staff members, 19 are archaeologists and 5 ancient historians, though several staff teach and research in both disciplines. In addition the School has an emeritus professor, 4 research fellows, and 9 honorary and associated members. The School was awarded a grade 5 in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise and a maximum score of 24 points in the Quality Assurance Agency's review of teaching in that year. The School has particular strengths in Mediterranean archaeology, ancient Greek and Roman history, and the archaeology of recent periods including Industrial Archaeology. In April 2008 the Centre for Historical Archaeology was opened. The School is also home to University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS). [4] Graeme W. W. Barker (born October 23, 1946) is a British archaeologist, notable for his work on the Etruscans, the Roman occupation of Libya, and landscape archaeology. ...

Law

University of Leicester Campus, showing the Faculty of Law and the David Wilson Library under construction

Within the university structure, the Faculty of Law is the smallest Faculty, however, it has one of the biggest departments as the Department of Law. The Law School has strong formal relationships with top law schools in many other countries such as South Africa, Singapore and Australia. It also has a number of leading academics who provide consultation to a number of legal and governmental bodies such as Professor Erika Szyszczak, Professor Chris Clarkson and Professor Malcolm Shaw QC.

In July 2007, two undergraduate law students, namely Steven Meltzer and Michael Weinstein won the International Negotiation Competition in Singapore, which is only the second occasion that a team from England and Wales has won the competition. As a result of this win, the law school will be the hosts for the 2008 National Negotiation Competition, which is sponsored by the College of Law and CEDR.

The Faculty maintains links with many top law firms, including the Magic Circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, who offer a one year scholarship to a Leicester student studying for the dual Law and French degree. The Law School is very proud of its flourishing Student Law Society which plays a central role in the life of the student body. Many law graduates at the university go on to follow careers in the City as commercial solicitors or barristers and so law at the university remains a popular choice and is always over-subscribed. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Freshfields main offices at 65 Fleet Street, London Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (often simply referred to as Freshfields) is a large international law firm based in London providing business law advice throughout Europe (including the United Kingdom), the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. ...

Teaching

The University is also held in high regard for the quality of its teaching. [5] 19 subject areas have been graded as "Excellent" by the Quality Assurance Agency — including 14 successive scores of 22 points or above stretching back to 1998, six of which were maximum scores. Leicester was ranked joint first amongst full-time mainstream English universities in the 2005, 2006 and 2007 National Student Survey for overall student satisfaction. Leicester is home to two prestigious national Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (in Genetics and Geographical Information Science) and plays an important role in a third (Physics). Over two thirds of subjects feature in the national top 10. The National Student Survey is a survey, launched in 2005,[1] of all final year degree students at institutions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. ...

Student Support

The University of Leicester has a well developed network of student support and development agencies. Most but not all of this activity is organised through the Student Support and Development Service.

Student Support and Development Service

The Student Support and Development Service provides a fully integrated development and support service for students at the University of Leicester and a range of specific provision for University of Leicester staff. The SSDS also provides services at an institutional level, and for the national and international Higher Education sector.

Many SSDS services are provided though its specialist units: Careers Service; Student Counselling Service; Welfare Service; Student Support (mental well being); Student Learning Centre and the AccessAbility Centre. The SSDS is also responsible for the Hugh Binnie Student Sick Bay although a decision has recently been taken to close this service.

Student Learning Centre

The Student Learning Centre provides support and development opportunities for academic and transferable skills for students at the University of Leicester. This includes individual support, workshops and training opportunities, work with academic departments and the provision of Personal Development Planning and Work-Related Learning.

The Student Learning Centre works with students at all levels from undergraduate to postgraduate and includes a dedicated Research Student Team.

Leicester Medical School

Main article: Leicester Medical School

The university is home to a large medical school, Leicester Medical School, which opened in 1971. Leicester Medical School was formerly in partnership with the University of Warwick, and the Leicester-Warwick medical school proved to be a success in helping Leicester expand, and Warwick establish. The partnership ran the end of its course towards the end of 2006 and the medical schools became autonomous institutions within their respective universities. Leicester Medical School is a medical school in England. ... The University of Warwick is a British campus university located on the outskirts of Coventry, West Midlands, England and is regarded as one of the countrys leading universities. ...

Centre for Labour Market Studies

The Centre for Labour Market Studies (CLMS) is actively involved in research with emphasis on the interdisciplinary approach based on subjects of Sociology, Psychology, Public Administration, Management Studies, Economics and Adult Education. CLMS has a strong international reputation for the quality of its research - especially in the areas of skills, training and school to work transitions. Sociology (from Latin: socius, companion; and the suffix -ology, the study of, from Greek λόγος, lógos, knowledge [1]) is the scientific or systematic study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture[2]. Areas studied in sociology can range from the analysis of brief contacts between anonymous... {redirect|Psychological science|the journal|Psychological Science (journal)}} Not to be confused with Phycology. ... Public Administration can be broadly described as the development, implementation and study of government policy. ... Vision and Mission of the Faculty The vision of the Faculty of Management Studies is to be a vibrant and innovative Faculty at the forefront of knowledge development for Africa and beyond. ... Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ... Libraries are useful resources for adult learners. ...

CLMS offers programs including the highly respected Doctor of Social Science, PhD, MSc, Diploma and Certificate programs in areas related to Human Resource Management, Organizational studies and Training & development. D.Sc. ... PhD usually refers to the academic title Doctor of Philosophy PhD can also refer to the manga Phantasy Degree This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Look up MSC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Diploma from Mexico City College, 1948 (in Latin) A diploma (from Greek δίπλωµα diploma) is a certificate or deed issued by an educational institution, such as a university, that testifies that the recipient has successfully completed a particular course of study, or confers an academic degree. ... A certificate is an official document affirming some fact. ... Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organizations most valued assets - the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business. ... Organizational studies, organizational behavior, and organizational theory are related terms for the academic study of organizations, examining them using the methods of economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, communication studies, and psychology. ...

The current Head of CLMS is Dr John Goodwin. Previous Heads include Professor Lorna Unwin, Dr Johnny Sung and Professor David Ashton.

League tables

Leicester is ranked 12th in the UK (out of 113 universities) by the Good University Guide published in the Independent newspaper on 24 April 2008[6]. It appears in the top 20 in the UK by The Guardian University Guide 2007[7], The UK Good University Guide and the Sunday Times University Guide [8]. The Guardian's league tables are compiled mainly on the basis of teaching data (staff/student ratio, job prospects, inclusiveness), and the Times's also include data on research ratings and the percentage of students who complete a degree. It is also ranked in the top 200 in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's world rankings.

The University was shortlisted by the Sunday Times for their award of the University of the Year 2007. Sunday Times University of the Year. It was also shortlisted by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2005 and 2006 for their University of the Year award. The Sunday Times University of the Year is an annual award given to a British university by The Sunday Times. ...

The research of the University is highly cited. A study carried out by Evidence for the Guardian Newspaper (published 30 October 2007) revealed the University's research has the highest impact of any Midlands university and the tenth highest figure amongst universities in England.

Notable architecture

The Engineering Building, designed by James Stirling, James Gowan and Frank Newby

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The University's Engineering Building was the first major building by important British architect James Stirling. It comprises workshops and laboratories at ground level, and a tower containing offices and lecture theatres. It was completed in 1963 and is notable for the way in which its external form reflects its internal functions. The very compact campus contains a wide range of twentieth century architecture, though the oldest building, the Fielding Johnson building, dates from 1837. The Attenborough Tower houses the tallest working paternoster in the UK and is undergoing extensive renovation. Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A paternoster at the University of Vienna, NIG (Neues Institutsgebäude), late 1950s, still in operation A paternoster or paternoster lift is an elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two persons) that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building...

The Ken Edwards Building, home to the School of Management

Leicester's halls of residence are also worthy of mention in their own right: many of the halls (nearly all in prosperous, leafy, Oadby) date from the early 1900’s and were the homes of Leicester’s wealthy industrialists.

The future of the University

The university is currently undergoing a £300+ million redevelopment. A new biomedical research building (the Henry Wellcome Building) has already been constructed.

The refurbished David Wilson Library, twice the size of the previous University Library, opened on 1 April 2008. The building has won critical acclaim for its spectacular toilets.

Student accommodation includes 16 new pavilions varying in size in the new John Foster Hall. On 1 October 2006, the university opened its new halls of residence located on Manor Road in Oadby. The new hall, now named "John Foster Hall" (in honour of the retiring Chair of University Council) was built on the former site of Villiers Hall. It houses over 700 students in flats housing 4-5 students, each en suite with fully fitted kitchens. The new pavilions are named after villages and towns around Leicestershire. is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... , Oadby is a town within the borough of Oadby and Wigston, in Leicestershire, England. ...

John Foster Hall also houses a laundrette, facilities building with bar/JCR, dining hall, kitchen, reception, two sets of toilets, four conference rooms and disabled access.

The 30-year plan is the largest in the university's history, expanding building space by 30% and student numbers from 19,000 to 25,000.

In recent years the University has disposed of some of its poorer quality property in order to invest in new facilities such as the John Foster Hall of Residence and the new University Library.

Library special collections

Christine and Paul Hatton were able to view examples from the rare books from the Hatton Topographical Library that their grandfather had donated to the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland College in 1920. This generous gift formed the nucleus of the University Library’s exceptional English local history collections. Local history is the study of the history of a relatively small geographic area; typically a specific settlement, parish or county. ...

• Local history collections (for the Centre for English Local History), including:
  • Thomas Hatton (1876 – 1943)'s collection. Born in Manchester, he began work as a junior clerk in a corset factory in Market Harborough and later moved to Leicester to set up his own boot manufacturing business. He also had interests in crossword promotion, greyhound racing and boxing (and on one trip to America was photographed with Laurel and Hardy, with all three of them wearing the trademark bowler hat), but his forté however was book collecting. A discriminating collector who applied his professional knowledge as a boot manufacturer to his book collecting by pioneering the use of glazed goat skin as a binding material, over a period of ten years he gathered one of the finest private collections of topographical and local history books. When his interests moved from topographical to Dickensian material, he agreed to donate his nearly 2,000 local history books to what was then Leicester College.

The library also holds a number of collections containing items written by several famous writers, these include: A luxury hourglass corset from 1878. ... , Market Harborough is a market town in Leicestershire, England. ... Cobbler may mean: a person who makes and repairs shoes and boots for a living. ... A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square grid of black and white squares. ... Several greyhounds before a race. ... For other meanings of these words, see boxing (disambiguation) or boxer. ... Laurel and Hardy, in a promotional still from their 1937 feature film Way Out West. ... Book collecting is what it sounds like, the collecting of books. ... Topography, a term in geography, has come to refer to the lay of the land, or the physiogeographic characteristics of land in terms of elevation, slope, and orientation. ... Local history is the study of the history of a relatively small geographic area; typically a specific settlement, parish or county. ... Dickens redirects here. ...

• Joe Orton Collection. Joe Orton (1933-1967) was a Leicester-born playwright, the collection contains his manuscripts and correspondence.
• Laura Riding Letters. The collected correspondence of the American poet and critic Laura Riding (1901-1991).
• Sue Townsend Collection. The personal papers of Sue Townsend (born 1946). The collection contains Townsend's literary correspondence and notebooks detailing her works.
• Archives of the Institute for the Study of Terrorism (see Jillian Becker).

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Facts and figures

From the 2004-2005 annual report:^[2]

Students

• 18,005 Registered students
• 9,491 Undergraduate students
• 8,514 Postgraduate students (7,096 taught, 1,321 research)
• 5,962 Distance learning students
• 9,911 Full-time students (8,350 UK and EU, 1,561 other)

• 28.3% Faculty of Social Science (includes former Faculty of Education)

• 25.8% Faculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences
• 18.6% Faculty of Arts
• 17.1% Faculty of Science
• 10.3% Faculty of Law

Staff

• 709 Full-time academic staff
• 43 Part-time academic staff
• 415 Full-time research staff
• 68 Part-time research staff
• 336 Full-time academic-related staff
• 87 Part-time academic-related staff
• 860 Full-time support staff
• 920 Part-time support staff

The Ripple - The University of Leicester Student Newspaper

The Ripple is the official newspaper of the University of Leicester. The Ripple was established in 1957 and has recently celebrated it's 50th Anniversary.

Lush Radio

Lush Radio is the radio station of the University of Leicester. Broadcasting a mixture of music, chat and news, the station provides Leicester students and residents a local alternative to other regional and national radio stations. The station normally broadcasts twice yearly on a Restricted Service Licence on FM 107.5 MHz and throughout most of the academic year via a dedicated webcast. The studio is located on the top floor of the University of Leicester Students' Union (Percy Gee) Building. Run and presented exclusively by students, the station broadcasts a varied mix of music as well as University, local and national news. Presenter numbers vary but are often in the region of 80 - 100, presenting music styles from Indie Rock, R&B and House through to Bhangra and other internationally flavoured music. A UK Restricted Service Licence (often called an RSL), is typically granted to radio stations and television stations broadcasting within the UK to serve a local community or a special event. ... The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... MegaHertz (MHz) is the name given to one million (106) Hertz, a measure of frequency. ... The University of Leicester Students Union is situated in the Percy Gee Building within the campus of the University of Leicester. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... Rhythm and blues (or R & B) is a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine. ... House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. ... Bhangra (Punjabi: , IPA: ) is a lively form of music and dance that originated in India. ...

Regular Events

• 24 Hour Charity Broadcast

Beginning in 2005, the station has held an annual 24 hour long broadcast in aid of a charity at the start of its second FM licence. The usual format for this is that two presenters host a show for the entire 24 hour period, with guest contributions from other members of the station. Local and national companies often show their support by providing prizes to be given away on air in various features.

In 2006 the chosen charity was Macmillan Cancer Support, in 2007 it was the BBC's Comic Relief appeal. Macmillan Cancer Support is one of the largest British charities and provides free care and support to people affected by cancer. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... For the origin of the term, see comic relief. ...

• Lush Roadshow

Started in 2007, Lush Radio has hosted the Lush Roadshow. Advertised as a chance to see Lush Presenters DJing live, it involved visiting several of the University of Leicester Halls of Residence over the period of a month. Each event lasted a night and involved live DJ sets from some of the stations presenters, as well as competitions and chances for the audience to come and try their hand at DJing. For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ... Halls of residence in British English (commonly referred to as halls, and to a lesser extent hall) are a type of residential accommodation for large numbers of students, similar to dormitories in the United States. ...

People

Chancellors

• The Lord Adrian (1957–1971)
• Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1971–1984)
• Sir George Porter (1984–1995)
• Sir Michael Atiyah (1995–2005)
• Sir Peter Williams (2005– )

To date, each of the former chancellors has had a University building named after him. Edgar Douglas Adrian won a Nobel Prize in 1932 Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian OM PRS (London, 30 November 1889 – 8 August 1977) was a British electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. ... Alan Lloyd Hodgkin photo: taken 1963 Nobel prize photo Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, FRS (February 5, 1914 – December 20, 1998) was a British physiologist and biophysicist, who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Andrew Fielding Huxley on the basis of nerve... The Right Honourable George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS (6 December 1920–31 August 2002) was an English chemist. ... Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS (b. ... Sir Peter Michael Williams, CBE, FRS (born 1945) is a British physicist. ...

Notable academics

• Khurshid Ahmad, Islamic Scholar
• Isobel Armstrong, Scholar of Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Women's Writing
• David Ashton, Sociologist, founder of the Centre for Labour Market Studies
• Graeme Barker, Disney Professor of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
• Richard Bonney, Historian
• Julian Boon, Forensic Psychologist and one of only about 20 Government accredited criminal profilers in the UK.
• Alan Bryman, Social Scientist
• Chris Clarkson, prominent Criminal lawyer, specialising in Corporate Liability. Recently consulted the Government on reform proposals for corporate liability.
• Philip Collins, Dickensian Scholar
• Philip Cottrell, Economic and financial Historian
• Heather Couper, Astronomer and Television Presenter
• Nicholas J. Cull, US Historian
• Ann Marie D'Arcy, Medievalist and expert on The Holy Grail
• Mary Dixon-Woods, medical sociologist
• Gabriel Dover, Geneticist
• Eric Dunning, Sports Sociologist
• Christopher Dyer, Medieval Historian
• Norbert Elias, German Sociologist
• Brian J. Ford, Scientist, Visiting Professor
• G. S. Fraser, Scottish Poet
• Anthony Giddens, prominent sociologist, taught social psychology at Leicester
• Reuben Goodstein, Mathematician, proponent of Goodstein's theorem
• Cosmo Graham, Public law and Competition law specialist. Member of the Competition Commission
• Jan Grodecki OBE, Emeritus Professor and founder of the Law school, 1965-1983. Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn
• Jeffrey A. Hoffman, NASA astronaut and physicist
• Richard Hoggart, Sociologist
• W. G. Hoskins, (1931-1952) (1965-1968), local historian, author of The Making of the English Landscape
• Norman Housley, Crusading historian
• Leonard Huxley, Physicist
• Sir Alec Jeffreys, geneticist, inventor of genetic fingerprinting
• Hans Kornberg, Biochemist
• Philip Larkin, Librarian and Poet
• David Mattingly, Roman archaeologist
• John McManners, Former Head of History dept, Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford until retirement
• Ilya Neustadt, (1915-1993) Sociologist, founding Head of the Sociology Department
• Ken Pounds, Emeritus Professor of Physics, discovered black holes were common in the universe
• Charles Rees, Organic Chemist
• Lord Rees of Ludlow, The Astronomer Royal, is a visiting professor at Leicester
• Clive Ruggles, Professor of Archaeoastronomy, believed to be the only such post in the world
• J.B. Schneewind, Philosophy professor, Johns Hopkins University
• Malcolm Shaw QC, The Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law, prominent International Lawyer & Jurist. Author of best selling book on International Law
• Brian Simon, Professor of Education 1966-1980
• Erika Szyszczak, Professor of European Competition and Labour Law, Jean Monnet Professor of Law ad personam, Barrister at Littleton Chambers, London. She is also the Director of the Centre of European Law and Integration.
• Sami Zubaida, Political Scientist

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Professor Cull is the director of the Masters in Public Diplomacy program at the University of Southern California. ... Gabriel A. Dover (Gabby Dover) is a British geneticist. ... Eric Dunning is Emeritus Professor of sociology at the University of Leicester, UK. Work Eric Dunning was a pioneer of the Sociology of Sport and the founder, with Patrick Murphy, of the Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research. ... Professor Christopher Dyer ( b. ... Norbert Elias (born June 22, 1897 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland); died August 1, 1990 in Amsterdam) was a German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen. ... Brian J. Ford (born 1939 in Corsham, Wiltshire) is an English independent scientist, prolific author and popular interpreter of scientific issues for the general populace, whose scientific papers and numerous books have been published internationally. ... George Sutherland Fraser (8 November 1915 - 3 January 1980) was a Scottish poet and literary critic, and academic. ... Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens (born January 18, 1938) is a British sociologist who is renowned for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. ... The scope of social psychological research. ... Reuben Louis Goodstein (born 15 December 1912 in London, died 8 March 1985 in Leicester) was an English mathematician with a strong interest in the philosophy and teaching of mathematics. ... In mathematical logic, Goodsteins theorem is a statement about the natural numbers that is undecidable in Peano arithmetic but can be proven to be true using the stronger axiom system of set theory, in particular using the axiom of infinity. ... Cosmo Graham is a professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Leicester. ... 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Notable alumni

Numerous public figures in many diverse fields have been students at the University, including:

• Peter Atkins, physical chemist
• David Blanchflower, Economist, Dartmouth College Professor
• Malcolm Bradbury, author
• Justin Chadwick, actor and director
• Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief of Nature
• Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer
• Ray Gosling, television presenter and journalist.^[3]
• Lord Grocott, former MP, Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
• Baroness Howarth, peer, on the board of CAFCASS
• Pete McCarthy, writer, broadcaster, comedian
• Michael Nicholson, journalist
• J. H. Plumb, Historian of Eighteenth century Britain
• Patrick Redmond , novelist
• C. P. Snow, author
• Sir John Stevens, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner and current Adviser on international security issues to Gordon Brown
• John Sutherland, Guardian Columnist, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University College London
• Laurie Taylor, broadcaster, actor, sociologist
• Jon Tickle, celebrity
• Storm Thorgerson, Artist

Bryan R. Wilson, Reader Emeritus of Sociology at Oxford University.

• Tony Underwood, England rugby union international
• Professor Sir Alan Walters, Economist
• Andrew Waterman, poet
• Bryan R. Wilson, Oxford Sociologist
• Ted Wragg , educationalist
• Malik Zahoor Ahmad , Pakistan diplomat

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The Attenboroughs

Two names commonly associated with the University of Leicester are Richard and David Attenborough. Their father Frederick Attenborough was Principal of the University College from 1932 until 1951. The brothers grew up on the campus (with their younger brother John), in a house which is currently home to the careers service (and is now near to the Attenborough tower, the tallest building on the campus and home to many of the arts and humanities departments). They were educated at the adjacent grammar school before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the University of Cambridge respectively. Both have maintained links with the university - David Attenborough was made an honorary Doctor of Letters in 1970 and opened the Attenborough Arboretum in Knighton in 1997. In the same year, the Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts was opened by Diana, Princess of Wales. Both brothers were made Distinguished Honorary Fellows of the University at the 13 July 2006 afternoon degree ceremony. Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born 29 August 1923) is an English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. ... Sir David Frederick Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS (born on 8 May 1926 in London, England) is one of the worlds most acclaimed broadcasters and naturalists. ... The University of Leicester, with the Attenborough building in the centre Frederick Levi Attenborough (1887–1973) was a British academic. ... Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, or Q.E is a sixth form college in Leicester, England. ... RADAs theatre in London The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in Bloomsbury, London, is considered to be one of the most prestigious drama schools in the world. ... The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the most prestigious universities in the world. ... Knighton is an area of Leicester, situated roughly between Clarendon Park to the north, Stoneygate and South Knighton to the east, Wigston to the south and Aylestone Park to the west. ... Diana Spencer redirects here. ... is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• University of Leicester website

References

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See also

• Bishop Grosseteste College
• De Montfort University
• Leicester University Law Society
• National Space Centre
• Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies
• The Ripple
• University of Leicester Botanic Garden
• University of Leicester Students' Union
• University of Northampton
• Delmon University
• Peer English, an academic journal published by the Department of English

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