University of Leicester

The University of Leicester is a public research university in Leicester, England, established as Leicestershire and Rutland University College in 1921 and granted full university status by royal charter in 1957, with its main campus a mile south of the city centre beside Victoria Park.莱斯特大学是位于英格兰莱斯特的一所公立研究型大学，1921 年以「莱斯特郡与拉特兰郡大学学院」的名义创办，1957 年获皇家特许状取得完全的大学地位，主校区位于市中心以南约一英里、与维多利亚公园相邻。

Its foundation was a memorial to the people of Leicester who served and died in the First World War: the worsted manufacturer Thomas Fielding Johnson bought 37 acres (15 hectares) of land for £40,000, and when the college opened in October 1921 it had only fourteen members of staff and students in all.它的创建本身是一座战争纪念碑：精纺毛织物制造商托马斯·菲尔丁·詹森以 4 万英镑购下 37 英亩（15 公顷）土地，1921 年 10 月开学时全校总共只有 14 人。

The university is known worldwide for the invention of genetic fingerprinting by Sir Alec Jeffreys in 1984 and for the excavation and DNA identification of the remains of King Richard III in 2012, and it stands 314th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.这所大学因 1984 年亚历克·杰弗里斯爵士在此发明基因指纹技术、以及 2012 年发掘并通过 DNA 鉴定理查三世遗骸而享誉世界，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 314。

History

• The first serious campaign for a university in Leicester was carried by the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, whose co-presidents the Reverend James Went, headmaster of Wyggeston Boys' School, and J. D. Paul pressed for a university college through the late nineteenth century.最早为莱斯特筹办大学的是莱斯特文学与哲学学会，该会两位联合主席——威杰斯顿男子文法学校校长詹姆斯·温特牧师与 J. D. 波尔——在 19 世纪末持续呼吁设立大学学院。

• The success of Owens College in Manchester, the creation of the University of Birmingham in 1900 and the opening of Nottingham University College convinced Leicester that it too needed a college, because university colleges could not award degrees and had to be affiliated to a degree-granting university.曼彻斯特欧文斯学院办学成功、1900 年伯明翰大学创立、诺丁汉大学学院相继设立，使莱斯特认定自己也需要一所学院，因为当时的大学学院无权颁授学位，必须挂靠拥有学位授予权的大学。

• Most students at such colleges presented themselves for examinations set by London University, and the proposal was revived in 1912 by Dr Astley V. Clarke (1870–1945), a Leicester-born doctor educated at Wyggeston Grammar School, Cambridge and Guy's Hospital, who had just become president of the society.这类学院的学生大多参加伦敦大学命题的校外考试。1912 年，生于莱斯特、先后就读于威杰斯顿文法学校、剑桥大学与盖伊医院的医生阿斯利·克拉克（1870—1945）就任学会主席，重提这一议案。

• Reaction was mixed, sceptics arguing that Leicester's relatively small population could not support a college, and talk of a university subsided after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.外界反应不一，怀疑者认为莱斯特人口规模偏小、撑不起一所学院，1914 年第一次世界大战爆发后，办大学的议论随之沉寂。

• In 1917 the Leicester Daily Post argued in an editorial that something of more practical use than a stone memorial should honour the war dead, and with its rival the Leicester Mail it urged donations, while a scheme for a federal East Midlands college with Nottingham, Sutton Bonington and Loughborough came to nothing.1917 年，《莱斯特每日邮报》社论主张以比石碑更实用的方式纪念阵亡者，并与竞争对手《莱斯特水星报》一同劝募，而与诺丁汉、萨顿博宁顿、拉夫伯勒合建东米德兰兹联邦学院的方案则无疾而终。

• The site came from Thomas Fielding Johnson, a wealthy philanthropist in the worsted trade who had already bought 37 acres for £40,000 intending that it should house the college together with boys' and girls' grammar schools, and subscriptions soon topped £100,000, many offered in memory of relatives lost in the war.校址出自精纺毛织物业的慈善家托马斯·菲尔丁·詹森，他已花 4 万英镑购下 37 英亩土地，打算同时容纳学院与男子女子文法学校，捐款很快超过 10 万英镑，其中多为阵亡者亲属所施。

• King George V gave his blessing to the scheme after visiting the town in 1919, and although many urged a curriculum built around Leicester's hosiery, boot and shoe industries, the Education Acts of 1902 and 1918 had extended schooling to the masses and made teacher training an equally urgent need.国王乔治五世 1919 年访问该市后为计划祝福。尽管许多人主张课程应围绕莱斯特的针织与鞋靴产业设计，但 1902 年与 1918 年的两部教育法已把教育普及到大众，师资培训的需求同样迫切。

• The college appointed its first official in 1920, nominating W. G. Gibbs, a long-standing supporter while editor of the Leicester Daily Post, as secretary, and on 9 May 1921 it named as principal the 35-year-old R. F. Rattray (1886–1967), who had taken a first-class English degree at Glasgow, studied at Manchester College in Oxford and won a PhD at Harvard University.学院于 1920 年任命首位职员，推举长期支持办学的《莱斯特每日邮报》编辑 W. G. 吉布斯为秘书。1921 年 5 月 9 日，35 岁的拉特雷（1886—1967）被任命为院长，他曾在格拉斯哥取得英语一等学位、就读牛津的曼彻斯特学院，并在哈佛大学获博士学位。

• The college opened its doors in October 1921 with fourteen people in all — the principal, the secretary, three lecturers and nine students, eight of them women — and Rattray, who taught Latin and English himself, recruited Miss Measham for botany, Miss Sarson for geography and Miss Chapuzet for French.1921 年 10 月开学时全院共 14 人：院长、秘书、三名讲师与 9 名学生，其中 8 名是女生。教授拉丁文与英文的拉特雷又聘来米珊姆教植物学、萨尔松教地理、沙普塞教法语。

• Two kinds of student were expected, some 100 to 150 teachers in training and undergraduates sitting the external degrees of London University, and a students' union was formed in 1923-24 with a Miss Bonsor as its first president.学院预期招收两类学生：约 100 至 150 名待培训的师范生，以及投考伦敦大学校外学位的本科生。学生会于 1923 至 1924 学年成立，首任主席为邦索尔小姐。

• In 1927 the institution was renamed University College, Leicester, and two years later it absorbed the Vaughan Working Men's College, which had been providing adult education in the town since 1862.1927 年，学校更名为莱斯特大学学院，两年后又并入自 1862 年起就在本市推行成人教育的沃恩工人学院。

• Rattray resigned as principal in 1931 and from 1932 the post was held by Frederick Attenborough (1887–1973), a Cambridge scholar who had edited and translated the earliest English law-codes, until Charles Wilson succeeded him in 1952.拉特雷于 1931 年辞去院长之职，1932 年起由曾校译英国最早法典的剑桥学者弗雷德里克·阿登堡（1887—1973）接任，1952 年由查尔斯·威尔森继任。

• University College was granted its royal charter in 1957, acquiring the status of a university with the right to award its own degrees, and Queen Elizabeth II opened the Percy Gee Student Union building on 9 May 1958.大学学院于 1957 年获颁皇家特许状，取得可自主授予学位的大学地位，女王伊丽莎白二世于 1958 年 5 月 9 日为帕西·吉学生会大楼揭幕。

• The motto Ut Vitam Habeant, meaning so that they may have life, reflects the war-memorial origins of the foundation and is believed to have been Rattray's own suggestion.校训 Ut Vitam Habeant 意为「使他们拥有生命」，正呼应学校的战争纪念出身，一般认为是拉特雷本人拟定。

• Leicester won the very first series of the television quiz University Challenge in 1963, and the Leicester Medical School opened in 1971 after a joint course with the University of Warwick that had helped Leicester expand and Warwick establish itself before the two schools became autonomous at the end of 2006.莱斯特在 1963 年夺得电视竞答节目《大学挑战》的首届冠军，莱斯特医学院于 1971 年开办，此前它与华威大学合办医学课程，帮助莱斯特扩张、华威立足，两校医学院直到 2006 年底才各自独立。

• The university received the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 1994 for what the citation called a world-class teaching, research and consultancy programme in astronomy and space and planetary science, and won the prize again in 2002 for its work in genetics.学校于 1994 年获颁女王周年奖，颁奖词称其在天文学与空间、行星科学领域拥有世界级的教学、研究与咨询项目，2002 年又因遗传学研究再度获奖。

• In 2011 it was selected as one of four sites for national high performance computing facilities serving theoretical astrophysics and particle physics, an investment of £12.32 million from the government's Large Facilities Capital Fund matched by the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the university.2011 年，学校被选为国家高性能计算设施的四处布点之一，服务理论天体物理与粒子物理，政府大型设施资本基金投入 1,232 万英镑，英国科学与技术设施委员会与校方共同出资。

• In September 2012 a team from University of Leicester Archaeological Services exhumed the body of King Richard III beneath the former Greyfriars friary church in the city, with Professor Turi King leading the DNA verification announced the following year.2012 年 9 月，莱斯特大学考古服务队在该市原格雷弗莱尔斯修道会教堂地下发掘出理查三世的遗骸，图里·金教授主持的 DNA 鉴定结果于次年公布。

• As a result of that success King was asked to investigate whether a skeleton found at Jamestown was that of George Yeardley, the first colonial governor of Virginia and founder of the Virginia General Assembly.因这次发掘的成功，金教授又受邀鉴定在詹姆斯敦发现的一具遗骸，判断它是否为弗吉尼亚首任殖民地总督、弗吉尼亚议会创立者乔治·亚德利。

• In January 2017 the university's physics students reached national headlines with a model of a zombie apocalypse which calculated that zombies would take over the earth in just 100 days, leaving roughly 300 uninfected survivors.2017 年 1 月，本校物理系学生因一项丧尸末日模拟登上全国新闻，他们算出丧尸只需 100 天即可席卷地球，最终约 300 人未被感染。

• In January 2021 around 200 members of the University and College Union passed a vote of no confidence in the vice-chancellor, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, over cuts that put 145 posts at risk out of a total staff of some 3,800, of which 63 were academic and 82 professional services posts, and in April the union urged colleagues to boycott the university.2021 年 1 月，约 200 名大学和学院联合会会员通过对副校长（即实际校长）尼山·卡纳加拉哈教授的不信任案，因为裁员计划使 145 个职位面临风险，而全校教职员总数约 3,800 人，其中 63 个为学术岗位、82 个为行政支持岗位。同年 4 月该工会呼吁同仁抵制莱斯特大学。

• Proposals to stop pure-maths research were first resisted in 2016 by Sir Michael Atiyah, chancellor from 1995 to 2005, and the January 2021 plans under the name Shaping for Excellence drew a petition called Mathematics is not redundant started by Timothy Gowers, winner of the 1998 Fields Medal, which gathered more than 6,000 signatures.停止纯数学研究的动议早在 2016 年即遭 1995 至 2005 年间任名誉校长的迈克尔·阿蒂亚爵士抵制。2021 年 1 月名为「塑造卓越」的裁员方案公布后，1998 年菲尔兹奖得主蒂莫西·高尔斯发起题为「数学并不多余」的请愿，签名超过 6,000 人。

Academics

• The schools and departments are organised into three colleges, restructured in August 2015 when the social sciences were merged with arts, humanities and law to form the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities alongside the College of Life Sciences and the College of Science and Engineering, and the charter corporation, whose visitor is King Charles III, is led by a chancellor, the space scientist Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, and by a president and vice-chancellor, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, who came from the University of Bristol in November 2019 and is a specialist in digital signal processing with a Cambridge doctorate of 1993.全校学系与部门归入三个学院，2015 年 8 月社会科学并入艺术、人文与法学部后，形成社会科学与艺术人文学院、生命科学学院、科学与工程学院三足并立的结构。作为特许法人团体，其视学官为国王查尔斯三世，名誉校长由太空科学家玛吉·阿德尔林-波科克女爵士出任，副校长（实际行政首长）为尼山·卡纳加拉哈教授，他 2019 年 11 月自布里斯托大学到校，1993 年在剑桥大学获博士学位，专攻数字信号处理。

• In the 2024/25 academic year the university had 18,990 students, made up of 14,675 undergraduates and 4,315 postgraduates, with 1,995 academic and 2,295 administrative staff in the returns of the Higher Education Statistics Agency.在 2024 至 2025 学年，学校有学生 18,990 人，其中本科生 14,675 人、研究生 4,315 人，高等教育统计局的报告显示另有学术人员 1,995 人、行政人员 2,295 人。

• The College of Life Sciences covers the Leicester Medical School, the School of Biological Sciences, the School of Psychology and the School of Allied Health Professions, with research departments in cardiovascular sciences, genetics and genome biology, health sciences, infection, immunity and inflammation, molecular and cell biology and neuroscience, psychology and behaviour.生命科学学院下辖莱斯特医学院、生物科学系、心理学系与相关健康职业学院，研究部门包括心血管科学、遗传学与基因组生物学、健康科学、感染免疫与炎症、分子与细胞生物学、神经科学与行为学。

• Within that college are the Leicester Cancer Research Centre, the Leicester Diabetes Centre, the Centre for Systems Neuroscience, the Leicester Precision Medicine Institute with its Leicester Drug Discovery and Diagnostics unit, the Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, and the British Heart Foundation cardiovascular research centre opened in 2014 under the cardiogeneticist Sir Nilesh Samani.该学院内设有莱斯特癌症研究中心、莱斯特糖尿病中心、系统神经科学中心、莱斯特精准医学研究所及其药物发现与诊断部门、莱斯特结构与化学生物学研究所，以及 2014 年由心脏病遗传学家尼莱什·萨马尼爵士主持、英国心脏基金会资助的心血管研究中心。

• The College of Science and Engineering comprises Chemistry, Informatics, the School of Geography Geology and the Environment, Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences and Physics and Astronomy, plus interdisciplinary centres for space research, climate change research, mathematical and computational modelling and advanced microscopy.科学与工程学院由化学、信息学、地理地质与环境学院、工程学、计算与数学科学、物理与天文六个单元组成，并设空间研究、气候变化研究、数学与计算建模、先进显微技术四个交叉研究中心。

• Physics and Astronomy has about 350 undergraduates on three-year BSc and four-year MPhys courses and more than 70 research postgraduates, houses the university's ALICE 3400+ core supercomputer as a member of the DiRAC national consortium, and runs the Swift UK Data Centre and the University of Leicester Observatory with a 20-inch telescope at Manor Road in Oadby.物理与天文系有约 350 名三年制理学士与四年制硕士贯通制本科生、70 余名注册研究生，设有校内 ALICE 3400+ 核心超级计算机并加入英国 DiRAC 超级计算联合体，同时运营斯威夫特英国数据中心以及位于奥德比马诺尔路、装有 20 英寸望远镜的莱斯特大学天文台。

• It forms part of Europe's largest academic centre for space research: the Mars Lander Beagle 2 was built there with the Open University, the university is a founding partner of the £52 million National Space Centre in Leicester, and its groups have taken part in the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and the American space agency's Swift missions.该系是欧洲规模最大的大学空间研究中心的骨干：「比格尔 2 号」火星着陆器在此与公开大学合作建造，学校是耗资 5,200 万英镑的莱斯特国家航天中心的创始伙伴，其研究组还参与了欧洲空间局的 XMM 牛顿卫星任务与美国航天局的斯威夫特卫星任务。

• Ken Pounds, who joined as an assistant lecturer in 1960 and became professor of space physics in 1973, led the X-ray astronomers whose observations demonstrated that black holes exist and are common in the universe, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1981, appointed CBE in 1984, president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1990 to 1992 and first chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council from 1994 to 1998.肯·庞兹 1960 年以助理讲师入校、1973 年任空间物理学教授，他领导的 X 射线天文团队以观测证明黑洞确实存在且在宇宙中十分普遍。他于 1981 年当选英国皇家学会会士，1984 年获授 CBE，1990 至 1992 年任英国皇家天文学会会长，1994 至 1998 年出任粒子物理与天文研究委员会首任首席执行官。

• The Engineering department offers MEng and BEng degrees in aerospace engineering, embedded systems engineering, communications and electronic engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering and general engineering, each accredited by the relevant professional institution, with industrial partners including ARM Holdings, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and Siemens.工程学系开设航空航天工程、嵌入式系统工程、通信与电子工程、电气与电子工程、机械工程与通用工程的学士与硕士课程，每门课程均由相应专业机构认证，工业伙伴包括安谋控股、BAE Systems、劳斯莱斯与西门子。

• The School of Archaeology and Ancient History was formed in 1990 from the then departments of Archaeology and Classics under Graeme Barker, a Fellow of the British Academy, employed 21 archaeologists and 8 ancient historians by January 2017, and is the home of University of Leicester Archaeological Services with strengths in Mediterranean archaeology and the archaeology of recent periods.考古学与古代史学院于 1990 年由当时的考古学系与古典学系合并而成，首任院长为英国国家学术院院士格雷姆·巴克，到 2017 年 1 月有 21 位考古学家与 8 位古代史学者，莱斯特大学考古服务队即设于此，长于地中海考古与近现代考古。

• The School of Museum Studies, founded by Raymond Singleton in 1966 to develop expertise in both academic research and museum and heritage practice, has headed its subject in the national research assessments of 2008 and 2014, runs the Research Centre in Museums and Galleries, created the Centre for Research in Arts and Cultural Administration in its fiftieth year of 2016, and publishes the journals Museological Review and Museum and Society.博物馆研究学院由雷蒙德·辛格尔顿于 1966 年创立，旨在同时发展学术研究与博物馆、遗产实务，它在 2008 年与 2014 年两次全国科研评估中位居同学科之首，设有博物馆与美术馆研究中心，2016 年建院五十周年时另创艺术机构研究中心，并出版《博物馆学评论》与《博物馆与社会》两种期刊。

• The School of English teaches from Old English and language studies through to contemporary writing and contains the Victorian Studies Centre, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, while its best-known graduate is Sir Malcolm Bradbury, who took a first class in English in 1953, and the department also publishes the journal Peer English.英语学院的教学上起古英语与语言研究、下及当代写作，并设有英国第一个维多利亚研究中心，其最著名的毕业生是 1953 年以一等成绩取得英语学位的马尔科姆·布拉德伯里爵士，该系还出版学术期刊《同行英语》。

• The School of Historical Studies had 35 full-time staff including 11 professors by 2009 and was then held to have more history professors than any other department in the country, with particular achievements in urban history, English local history, American studies and Holocaust studies, and it houses both the East Midlands Oral History Archive and the Media Archive for Central England as well as the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies.历史研究学院到 2009 年有 35 名全职教师、其中 11 位教授，被认为多于全国任何大学的历史学系，在城市史、英格兰地方史、美国研究与大屠杀研究上成就突出，院内设有东米德兰兹口述历史档案馆、英格兰中部媒体档案馆与斯坦利·伯顿大屠杀研究中心。

• Leicester Law School, based in the Fielding Johnson Building with the Harry Peach Law Library, a legal advice clinic and a moot court, was placed eighth of 87 institutions in the Times Online Good University Guide 2009 and keeps links with the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, which funds a year of study for students taking a dual degree with French.法学院设在费尔丁·詹森大楼内，附设哈里·皮奇法律图书馆、法律咨询门诊与模拟法庭，在 2009 年《泰晤士报在线优秀大学指南》中被列为 87 所法律院系中的第 8 位，并与富尔德·布鲁克豪斯·德瑞格律师事务所合作，为修读法律与法语双学位的学生资助一年学习。

• The School of Business was created in 2016 by bringing together the School of Management and the Department of Economics, has roughly 150 academics, about 100 from management and 50 from economics, led by the operations specialist Zoe Radnor who joined from Loughborough University, and is accredited by the Association of MBAs among some 270 schools and universities worldwide.商学院于 2016 年由管理学院与经济系合并组建，约有 150 名教师，其中管理学科 100 人、经济学科 50 人，院长佐伊·拉德纳专攻运营管理、2016 年自拉夫伯勒大学到校任职，学院是英国工商管理硕士协会认可的全球约 270 所院校之一。

• In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework the Times Higher Education analysis ranked Leicester 30th in the United Kingdom, twenty-three places higher than in 2014, with Clinical Medicine, History and Sports and Exercise Science placed second in the country, Museum Studies third, Archaeology fifth, Media seventh and English eleventh, while its archaeology and biological sciences research was judged top in the United Kingdom for impact.在 2021 年科研卓越框架中，泰晤士高等教育的分析把莱斯特列全英第 30 位，比 2014 年上升 23 位，临床医学、历史学、运动与锻炼科学名列全国第二，博物馆学第三、考古学第五、媒体学第七、英语第十一，考古学与生物科学研究的影响力更被评为全英第一。

• Admissions place it among the medium-tariff institutions designated by the Department for Education, the average entrant in recent years accumulating 121 to 128 UCAS tariff points in the top three pre-university qualifications, equivalent to BBB to ABB at A-level and 132 points on the broader 2022/23 measure used in domestic league tables, while teaching has been graded Excellent by the Quality Assurance Agency in 19 subject areas, including fourteen successive scores of 22 points or more since 1998 of which six were maxima, and Leicester was joint first in England's National Student Survey for mainstream universities in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009, second only to Cambridge in 2008.按教育部划定的入学标准分档，莱斯特属于中等门槛院校，近年新生前三项大学前资历平均取得 121 至 128 个 UCAS 积分，相当于 A 水平的 BBB 至 ABB，若按国内排行榜采用的 2022 至 2023 年度更宽口径则为 132 分。教学方面，高等教育质量保证局已将全校 19 个学科领域评为「优秀」，其中自 1998 年以来连续十四次取得 22 分及以上、六次为满分。莱斯特在 2005、2006、2007 与 2009 年连续于全英主流大学的全国学生调查中并列第一，2008 年更仅次于剑桥大学。

• Its Institute of Learning Innovation, directed by Grainne Conole, had carried out more than thirty UK and European-funded research projects by August 2013 on topics from teaching with podcasts and e-readers in distance education to open educational resources and learning design, and the university's International Study Centre runs three foundation pathways in engineering, physical and mathematical sciences, in science and computing, and in economics, business and social sciences.由格兰尼·科诺勒领导的学习创新研究所，到 2013 年 8 月已承担三十余项英国与欧洲基金资助的项目，研究范围从播客教学、远程教育中的电子阅读器到开放教育资源与学习设计。学校的国际学习中心则开设三条预科通道，分别面向工程与物理数学、科学与计算机、经济与商业和社会科学。

• In the financial year 2024/25 the university reported income of £395.0 million, of which £84.9 million came from research grants and contracts, against expenditure of £407.3 million, with an endowment of £24.3 million recorded in 2025.在 2024 至 2025 财年，学校总收入为 3.95 亿英镑，其中 8,490 万英镑来自科研拨款与合同，支出为 4.073 亿英镑，2025 年记录的捐赠基金为 2,430 万英镑。

• Leicester is affiliated to Universities UK, the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the European University Association, belongs to the Midlands Innovation partnership of research-intensive universities and is listed among the Sutton 30, having been described as the most socially inclusive of Britain's leading universities, with about 2 per cent of its undergraduates coming from independent schools in the 2017 Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.莱斯特大学是英国大学协会、英联邦大学协会与欧洲大学协会的成员，并加入以研究见长高校的「米德兰兹创新」合作组织，还被列入关注教育公平的「萨顿 30」名单，曾被誉为英国顶尖大学中社会包容度最高的一所——按 2017 年《泰晤士报与星期日泰晤士报优秀大学指南》，其本科生中仅约 2% 来自独立学校。

Campus

• The main campus is a mile south of the city centre on a hill site next to Victoria Park and Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, is entered from University Road, and its skyline is punctuated by three towering blocks of the 1960s: the Engineering Building, the Attenborough Tower and the Charles Wilson Building.主校区坐落在市中心以南一英里的一处高地，与维多利亚公园和威杰斯顿与伊利莎白一世学院相邻，正门面向大学路，天际线由三座 1960 年代的高楼标出：工程学院大楼、阿登堡塔楼与查尔斯·威尔森大楼。

• The Fielding Johnson Building was designed by William Parsons in a late Georgian provincial style as the Leicestershire and Rutland County Asylum, was home to most university departments from 1921 until purpose-built rooms were created, took its present name in 1964, and now holds the administration offices, the law school, the university's council chambers and the Accessibility service, with the Peter Williams lecture theatre and the Ogden Lewis Seminar Suite beneath the David Wilson Library.费尔丁·詹森大楼由威廉·帕森斯以晚期乔治亚地方风格设计，原为莱斯特郡与拉特兰郡精神病院，1921 年起在专用校舍建成前容纳了大部分学系，1964 年改为现名，现内有行政办公室、法学院、校务委员会会议厅与无障碍服务中心，其南翼底层连通大卫·威尔森图书馆下的彼得·威廉斯讲堂与奥格登·刘易斯研讨室。

• The Attenborough Building, at 18 storeys and 52 metres the tallest structure on campus and one of the tallest in the city, was designed by Arup Associates with Ove Arup as chief engineer and built between 1968 and 1970, contains 270 offices and tutorial rooms over a seminar block and two underground lecture theatres seating 204 and 96, and was named for the principal Frederick Attenborough and opened in 1970 on his behalf by his youngest son John because he was then frail.阿登堡大楼共 18 层、高 52 米，是校内也是城中最高的建筑之一，由奥雅纳事务所设计、奥维·阿鲁普任总工程师，1968 至 1970 年间建成，含 270 间办公室与辅导室，并附研讨楼与可坐 204 人和 96 人的两座地下讲堂。楼名取自院长弗雷德里克·阿登堡，因他年迈体弱，由其幼子约翰代为出席开幕。

• The Engineering Building was the first major commission of the British architects James Stirling and James Gowan, puts workshops and laboratories at ground level beneath a tower of offices and lecture theatres, was completed in 1963 and is a Grade II listed building, while the Charles Wilson Building, completed in 1967 to designs by Denys Lasdun, is so fiercely brutalist that residents and alumni have compared its silhouette to the transformer Optimus Prime.工程学院大楼是英国建筑师詹姆斯·斯特林与詹姆斯·高恩承接的第一项大型设计，地面层为车间与实验室、上部塔楼为办公室与讲堂，1963 年完工，被列为二级登录建筑（Grade II）。丹尼斯·拉斯顿设计的查尔斯·威尔森大楼 1967 年落成，因其粗野主义轮廓而被当地居民与校友戏称为「变形金刚中的擎天柱」。

• Opposite the Fielding Johnson Building stand the Astley Clarke Building, home to the School of Criminology and Sociology, and the Danielle Brown Sports Centre, and nearby the Ken Edwards Building of 1995 houses part of the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and the School of Modern Languages.与费尔丁·詹森大楼相望的是阿斯特利·克拉克大楼，为犯罪学与社会学学院所在地，以及丹妮尔·布朗体育中心。附近的肯·爱德华大楼建于 1995 年，容纳计算与数学科学学院的一部分以及现代语言学院。

• Beyond the Charles Wilson Building lie the Bennett Building, the Physics and Astronomy Building, the Chemistry Building and the Adrian Building of 1967, designed by Courtaulds Technical Services which became W. F. Johnson and Partners and named for Edgar Adrian, the university's first chancellor from 1957 to 1971, while across University Road, joined by pedestrian bridges, stand the Maurice Shock and Hodgkin Buildings and further along the George Davies Centre of 2016 for the medical school.查尔斯·威尔森大楼之外依次是本内特大楼、物理与天文大楼、化学大楼与 1967 年建的阿德里安大楼，后者出自后来改称 W. F. 约翰逊事务所的库尔茨技术服务部之手，楼名纪念学校 1957 至 1971 年间的首任名誉校长埃德加·阿德里安。大学路对面由人行天桥相连的是莫里斯·肖克大楼与霍奇金大楼，再往前是 2016 年建成、供医学院使用的乔治·戴维斯中心。

• Along London Road the Brookfield campus holds the College of Business and the postgraduate centre in a house originally built in 1870 that was Thomas Fielding Johnson's own home and which the university bought from De Montfort University in 2013, and on Lancaster Road the Attenborough Arts Centre serves as the university's gallery, with the School of Education and the Fraser Noble Building between Salisbury Road and Regents Road.伦敦路旁的布鲁克菲尔德校区是商学院与研究生中心所在地，主体建筑最初建于 1870 年、曾是菲尔丁·詹森本人的宅邸，学校于 2013 年向德蒙福特大学购入。兰卡斯特路上的阿登堡艺术中心是校方的美术馆，教育学院与弗雷泽·诺布尔大楼则位于梳士巴利道与摄政道之间。

• Accommodation is a feature of the estate: many halls, nearly all of them in Oadby, date from the early 1900s and were the houses of Leicester's wealthy industrialists, while on-campus living is at Freemen's Common and Nixon Court, the John Foster Hall of Residence opened in October 2006, Nixon Court was extended in 2011 and a programme of redevelopment worth over £300 million has added the Henry Wellcome biomedical building and, on the site of the old Freemen's Common blocks, new halls and the Sir Bob Burgess Building. The David Wilson Library, which replaced the 1975 university library at twice its floor area for £32 million, opened on 1 April 2008 and was opened officially by the Queen on 4 December 2008, earning the top BREEAM rating and the title of the best library team in the Times Higher Education awards of 2012.宿舍是本校区的一大特色：绝大多数宿舍位于奥德比，建于 20 世纪初，原是莱斯特富商宅邸。校内住宿集中在自由民公地与尼克松苑，约翰·福斯特公寓于 2006 年 10 月启用，尼克松苑在 2011 年扩建，逾 3 亿英镑的重建计划又新增亨利·威尔森生物医学楼，并在自由民公地旧宿舍原址上建起新公寓与共用型的鲍勃·伯吉斯爵士大楼。大卫·威尔森图书馆取代 1975 年建成的原大学图书馆、楼面面积倍增、造价 3,200 万英镑，2008 年 4 月 1 日开放、同年 12 月 4 日由女王正式揭幕，获英国绿色建筑评估体系最高等级，并在 2012 年泰晤士高等教育奖项中被评为最佳图书馆团队。

Reputation

• The University of Leicester is placed 314th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.莱斯特大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 314。

• It is joint 209th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 166th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities table.学校在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 209，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 166。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University it falls in the 301-400 band, and it stayed in the top 30 of United Kingdom tables in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026 announced in September 2025.在由上海交通大学发布的 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，学校位于 301 至 400 区间。它还在 2025 年 9 月公布的《泰晤士报与星期日泰晤士报优秀大学指南 2026》中保持英国前 30 位。

• In October 2025 the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2026 placed it inside the world's top 30 for research quality, and the same organisation had earlier named it University of the Year for 2008, the judges citing its conviction that higher education is a power for good.2025 年 10 月公布的 2026 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把学校列入世界研究质量前 30。该机构更早前的 2008 年曾授予其年度大学称号，评委称其坚信高等教育是一种向善的力量。

• On subject tables its archaeology stood 40th in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025, one of 25 subjects in which Leicester was ranked that year, and the national research assessment published in 2021 ranked its clinical medicine, history and sports and exercise science second in the United Kingdom.在学科榜单上，其考古学在 2025 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中列世界第 40，该年莱斯特共有 25 个学科上榜，而 2021 年发布的全国科研评估把其临床医学、历史学与运动锻炼科学列为全英第二。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 104,448 research works which have attracted 9,333,090 citations, a volume of output that sits well above the median of English twentieth-century foundation universities.据 OpenAlex 统计，学校已产出 104,448 项研究成果，累计被引用 9,333,090 次，其产出量明显高于本世纪成立的英格兰大学群体的中位水平。

• Its roll of honours includes two Queen's Anniversary Prizes, awarded in 1994 for physics and astronomy and in 2002 for genetics, nineteen Quality Assurance Agency grades of Excellent, and a place at 76th in Reuters' 2019 list of the hundred most innovative universities in Europe, where its strength was molecular and cell biology.学校的荣誉名录上有两项女王周年奖（1994 年物理与天文、2002 年遗传学）、十九个高等教育质量保证局的「优秀」评定，以及路透社 2019 年欧洲百大最具创新力大学榜单上的第 76 位，其强项为分子与细胞生物学。

• Two of the highest honours in mathematics have been attached to the university: the 1966 Fields medallist and 2004 Abel Prize winner Sir Michael Atiyah was its chancellor from 1995 until 2005, and the 1998 Fields medallist Timothy Gowers led the 2021 protest over its pure-maths posts, while the Astronomer Royal Lord Rees of Ludlow has been a visiting professor in its astronomy department.数学界两项最高荣誉都曾与该校相系：1966 年菲尔兹奖与 2004 年阿贝尔奖得主迈克尔·阿蒂亚爵士于 1995 至 2005 年任名誉校长，1998 年菲尔兹奖得主蒂莫西·高尔斯则在 2021 年带头抗议该校裁撤纯数学岗位，皇家天文学家拉德洛的里斯勋爵长期在该校天文系担任客座教授。

• Its research reach is measurable beyond the league tables: it was awarded more than £10.8 million of government funding for coronavirus work, ranking among the best-performing British universities on COVID-19 and the first in the world to identify the greater susceptibility of people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds to severe infection, and its 2006 World Map of Happiness surveyed 178 countries and territories.除排行榜之外，其研究辐射力同样可量化：学校在新冠研究上获政府资助逾 1,080 万英镑，位列英国表现最佳的高校之列，并是世界上第一个发现黑人、亚裔与少数族裔背景者更易发展为重症的机构。2006 年它发布的「世界幸福地图」则调查了 178 个国家与地区。

Student life

• The university's Latin motto Ut Vitam Habeant, rendered in English as so that they may have life, is borne on its coat of arms and flag, was chosen to honour the war dead whose memory founded the college, and its scarf and ceremonial colours are maroon, white and dark green.学校的拉丁文校训 Ut Vitam Habeant 英译为「使他们拥有生命」，铸于校徽与校旗之上，其立意正是纪念缔造这所学院的阵亡者，而学校的绶带与典礼配色为栗色、白色与深绿色。

• Students are represented by the students' union housed in the Percy Gee Building of 1957, named after one of the college's first treasurers, opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 9 May 1958, fully refurbished by September 2010, and running more than 220 societies, an office the union has held since a Miss Bonsor was elected its first president in 1923-24.学生由学生会代表，其会所在 1957 年建成的帕西·吉大楼，楼名取自学院最早的财务主管之一，女王伊丽莎白二世于 1958 年 5 月 9 日为其揭幕，2010 年 9 月完成整体翻新，下辖 220 多个社团，而自 1923 至 1924 学年邦索尔小姐当选首任主席以来，这一自治组织从未中断。

• Student media are produced by three groups: Leicester Student Magazine, founded in 1957 and earlier known as The Ripple, The Wave and Galaxy Press, Galaxy Radio, established in 1996 as LUSH Radio and presented entirely by students, and Leicester University Student Television, revived in 2002 after a period of dormancy, affiliated to the National Student Television Association and host of its annual awards ceremony in 2008.学生媒体由三个团体制作：《莱斯特学生杂志》创刊于 1957 年，早前先后名为 The Ripple、The Wave 与 Galaxy Press。Galaxy 电台成立于 1996 年、原名 LUSH，完全由学生自制自播。莱斯特大学学生电视台在停播后于 2002 年复办，隶属全国学生电视协会，并在 2008 年主办其年度颁奖典礼。

• Galaxy Radio holds an annual charity broadcast: it raised £300 for Comic Relief in 2011, staged its first 69-hour broadcast in 2013 to collect more than £450 for the same appeal, and in 2018 worked with the student donation group Leicester Marrow to raise £1,000 for the stem-cell charity Anthony Nolan.Galaxy 电台每年举行慈善直播：2011 年为「喜剧救济」筹得 300 英镑，2013 年首次连续直播 69 小时、为该筹款项目募得逾 450 英镑，2018 年又与学生造血干细胞志愿团体莱斯特骨髓计划合作，为干细胞慈善机构安东尼·诺兰筹得 1,000 英镑。

• The varsity fixture against neighbouring De Montfort University is a fixed point of the sporting calendar, and radio has broadcast the matches live from two of the city's great grounds, the King Power Stadium for football and Welford Road Stadium for rugby union.与邻近的德蒙福特大学之间的校际对抗赛是体育日历上的固定节目，电台曾分别从莱斯特的两座著名球场——皇权球场进行足球赛、韦弗尔德路球场进行橄榄球联合式比赛——作现场直播。

• The Attenborough family remains part of student tradition: David Attenborough received an honorary doctorate of letters in 1970 and opened the Attenborough Arboretum at Knighton in 1997, the Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts was opened by Diana, Princess of Wales in the same year, and both brothers were made Distinguished Honorary Fellows at the degree ceremony on the afternoon of 13 July 2006.阿登堡家族始终是学生传统的一部分：大卫·阿登堡 1970 年获授荣誉文学博士学位，1997 年在奈顿为阿登堡树木园揭幕，同年理查德·阿登堡残疾与艺术中心由威尔士王妃戴安娜开幕，2006 年 7 月 13 日下午的学位典礼上，两兄弟同被授予杰出荣誉研究员称号。

• Sport runs through the estate as well: the Danielle Brown Sports Centre takes its name from the Leicester alumna Danielle Brown MBE, the compound-bow archer who won Paralympic gold at Beijing 2008 and London 2012, took a Commonwealth Games gold in the able-bodied team event at Delhi 2010 and was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours.体育也贯穿整个校园：丹妮尔·布朗体育中心即以莱斯特校友丹妮尔·布朗的名字命名，这位复合弓射手在北京 2008 年与伦敦 2012 年残奥会上两夺金牌，2010 年在德里的英联邦运动会上以健全人团体项目再得金牌，并于 2013 年元旦授勋中获授大英帝国员佐勋章。

• The university kept its centenary in 2021, exactly a hundred years after it opened in October 1921 with fourteen people, and its war-memorial character is still recalled in the founding subscriptions, many of which were given in the names of relatives who had been killed or who had survived.学校在 2021 年迎来百年校庆，距 1921 年 10 月仅有 14 人的开学恰好一百年，而其战争纪念的性质至今仍可在创校募捐记录中读到——当年许多捐款是以阵亡者或幸存老兵的姓名捐出的。

Notable people

• Sir Alec John Jeffreys, born in Oxford on 9 January 1950, is professor of genetics at Leicester, where he moved in 1977 and had his eureka moment on 10 September 1984 looking at the X-ray film of a DNA experiment, inventing genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling, for which he was made an honorary freeman of the City of Leicester on 26 November 1992 and knighted by the Queen in 1994 for services to genetics.亚历克·约翰·杰弗里斯爵士 1950 年 1 月 9 日生于牛津，是莱斯特大学的遗传学教授，1977 年到校，1984 年 9 月 10 日在观察一份 DNA 实验的 X 光底片时豁然开朗，发明了基因指纹与 DNA 分析技术。他于 1992 年 11 月 26 日获授莱斯特城荣誉自由市民称号，1994 年因对遗传学的贡献由女王封爵。

• Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, winner of the 1966 Fields Medal and the 2004 Abel Prize, was chancellor of the university from 1995 to 2005, remained associated with it until his death in January 2019, and had blocked the 2016 plan to cut pure-maths staff.迈克尔·弗朗西斯·阿蒂亚爵士是 1966 年菲尔兹奖与 2004 年阿贝尔奖得主，1995 至 2005 年出任莱斯特大学名誉校长，直至 2019 年 1 月逝世前仍与该校保持联系，他长期维护本校数学系，并在 2016 年阻止了裁减纯数学教师的方案。

• Frederick Levi Attenborough, principal from 1932 to 1951, was a Cambridge scholar of Emmanuel College who edited and translated the earliest English law-codes, took in two Jewish Kindertransport refugee girls before the Second World War, and gave his name to the campus's tallest building.弗雷德里克·利维·阿登堡于 1932 至 1951 年任大学学院院长，是剑桥大学伊曼纽尔学院的学者，曾校译并英译英国最早的法典，二战前夕在家中收留了两名搭乘儿童运输列车逃难的犹太女孩，校内最高建筑即以他命名。

• His sons were the actor and director Lord Attenborough, created a life peer in 1993, and the naturalist Sir David Attenborough, who spent his childhood in College House on the campus, was made an honorary doctor of letters in 1970 and with his brother became a Distinguished Honorary Fellow on 13 July 2006.他的两个儿子分别是演员兼导演阿登堡勋爵（1993 年受封终身贵族）与自然学者大卫·阿登堡爵士，后者童年即住在校园内的学院楼，1970 年获授荣誉文学博士，并于 2006 年 7 月 13 日与兄长同获杰出荣誉研究员称号。

• Kenneth Alwyne Pounds, CBE and Fellow of the Royal Society, arrived in 1960 as an assistant lecturer after a PhD at University College London, built Leicester's X-ray astronomy group from 1974, demonstrated that black holes are common in the universe, became the first chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council in 1994 and had asteroid 4281 Pounds named in his honour.肯尼思·阿尔温·庞兹获授 CBE 并当选英国皇家学会会士，1960 年在伦敦大学学院取得博士学位后到校任助理讲师，1974 年起组建莱斯特的 X 射线天文学团队，证明黑洞在宇宙中普遍存在，1994 年出任粒子物理与天文研究委员会首任首席执行官，小行星 4281 号即以他的名字命名。

• Turi Emma King, born in Nottingham in 1969, took a master's degree in molecular genetics at Leicester with first-class distinction as a Wellcome Trust Prize student and a doctorate in 2007 on British surnames and Y-chromosome haplotypes with Alec Jeffreys on her supervisory panel, before leading the DNA identification of Richard III as the university's professor of public engagement and genetics.图里·埃玛·金 1969 年生于诺丁汉，以惠康基金会奖学金学生的身份在莱斯特取得分子遗传学一等荣誉硕士学位，2007 年以英国姓氏与 Y 染色体单倍型的关系获博士学位，其指导小组包括杰弗里斯，此后她以该校公众参与与遗传学教授的身份主持了理查三世遗骸的 DNA 鉴定。

• Sarah Victoria Hainsworth, professor of materials and forensic engineering and head of the department of engineering at Leicester, attracted public attention for relating the tool marks on the skeleton of Richard III to possible weapons, was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2016, received the Andrew H. Payne Jr award of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in 2015 and an OBE in the 2019 New Year Honours.萨拉·维多利亚·海恩斯沃斯曾任莱斯特材料与法医工程教授、工程学系主任，因把理查三世遗骸上的工具痕迹与可能的凶器相对应而广受关注，2016 年当选英国皇家工程院院士，2015 年获美国法医科学学会的安德鲁·H. 佩恩 Jr. 奖，2019 年元旦授勋中获授 OBE。

• Academic staff elsewhere have included the sociologist Anthony Giddens, who taught social psychology at Leicester, the organic chemist Charles Rees, the librarian and poet Philip Larkin, the American space agency astronaut and physicist Jeffrey A. Hoffman, and the Astronomer Royal Lord Rees of Ludlow as a visiting professor.在其他任教者中包括曾在此教授社会心理学的社会学家安东尼·吉登斯、有机化学家查尔斯·里斯、图书馆员兼诗人菲利普·拉金、美国航天局宇航员兼物理学家杰弗里·A. 霍夫曼，以及以客座教授身份任教的皇家天文学家拉德洛的里斯勋爵。

• Alumni in science and letters include the physical chemist Peter Atkins, Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief of the journal Nature, the former chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson, the novelist Sir Malcolm Bradbury, the author C. P. Snow, the novelist Adele Parks, the comedian Bob Mortimer, the Emmy-winning television producer Bob Parr, and John-Henry Phillips, the broadcaster and archaeologist.科学与文教领域的校友包括物理化学家彼得·阿特金斯、《自然》杂志总编辑菲利普·坎贝尔、前首席医疗官利亚姆·唐纳森爵士、小说家马尔科姆·布拉德伯里爵士、作家查尔斯·珀西·斯诺、小说家阿黛尔·帕克斯、喜剧演员鲍勃·莫蒂默、屡获艾美奖的电视制片人鲍勃·帕尔，以及主持人兼考古学家约翰-亨利·菲利普斯。

• In politics and business its alumni include Atifete Jahjaga, president of Kosovo from 2011, Jyrki Katainen, prime minister of Finland, Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, the minister Norman Lamb, the National Union of Students president Aaron Porter for 2010-11, Princess Mako of Akishino of the Japanese imperial family, and the Chinese management scholar Zeng Shiqiang, who took a doctorate in management philosophy at Leicester before becoming a professor at National Chiao Tung University and a television lecturer on the Book of Changes.在政界与商界，其校友包括 2011 年起出任科索沃总统的阿蒂费特·雅哈加、芬兰总理于尔基·卡泰宁、英格兰与威尔士绿党领袖娜塔莉·贝内特、大臣诺曼·兰博、2010 至 2011 年度全国学生联合会主席亚伦·波特、日本秋筱宫家的真子内亲王，以及华人管理学者曾仕强——他在莱斯特取得管理哲学博士学位，后任台湾交通大学教授并以在电视上讲解《易经》闻名。