Our director Professor Jeremy Howick has been ranked in the top 0.25% of researchers in General and Internal Medicine in the 2026 Stanford–Elsevier career-long citation-impact database 👏 Jeremy has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and is the author of three books, including Doctor You, which became an Amazon number 1 bestseller. His research into the power of empathy and the mind-body connection has also earned recognition from the British Medical Association, the European Society for Person-Centred Healthcare, and the University of Oxford. Congratulations Jeremy on this great achievement ❤️

Did you know you can watch a selection of plenaries from our ground-breaking Educating for Empathy in Healthcare course that show educators how to teach empathy to others?

“It was a good eye-opener to how empathy can make a huge difference in my daily consultations.” This was one of the positive responses we received from previous participants of our 'Evidence-based empathy skills for healthcare practitioners' half-day webinar. 1/2

Measuring empathy in healthcare is important so we asked: How can we make empathy measurement simpler? The answer: our new Rapid Assessment of Therapeutic Empathy (RATE) scale. Hear more about RATE from @a_bennettweston below👇 Read the research: journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Our director Professor Jeremy Howick will give a keynote lecture at the Latin American Conference on Empathy in Healthcare: Education, evidence and practice as part of our efforts to improve outcomes for patients and help healthcare professionals cope with pressures at work. 1/3

Our director Professor @JeremyHowick will give a keynote lecture at the Latin American Conference on Empathy in Healthcare: Education, evidence and practice as part of our efforts to improve outcomes for patients and help healthcare professionals cope with pressures at work 1/3

How do we create a healthcare system filled with practitioners who put empathy at the heart of everything they do? Hear from our director, Professor Jeremy Howick, how our ground-breaking Educating for Empathy in Healthcare course is helping to make this possible 👇

📰 NEWS: Congratulations to our director, Professor Jeremy Howick, who has been awarded the prestigious Sir Paul Curran Award by The Conversation for excellence in communicating academic research to a global public audience 👏 1/3

Don't miss out on our free 1-hour webinar on Empathic Leadership: From Understanding to Action, designed for healthcare leaders, practitioners, educators and students. 📅 Thu 7 May 2026 ⏰ 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM BST Book now 👉tickettailor.com/events/ston… #empathy #healthcare

More than 150 University of Leicester staff members were nominated for our Empathy Champions scheme by students during our first Empathy Fortnight 🙌 Nearly 30 nominees have been selected as champions for exemplifying what #empathy in #highereducation should look like.

Would banning under-16s from social media protect their mental health? It’s a popular idea and it's being proposed in the UK. But it might miss the real problem. 👉 A new article by Professor @JeremyHowick of the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare explains why. 1/6

❓DYK we're running an Evidence-based empathy skills for healthcare practitioners course? It will help healthcare professionals and trainees to: ⭐️ Deepen #empathy skills ⭐️ Reduce burnout and improve wellbeing ⭐️ Improve patient outcomes 🔗 le.ac.uk/empathy/study/healt…