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Teaching meets the Gold standard at University of Leicester in national ratings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/tef-gold
University of Leicester is delighted to receive an overall Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023, which means the student experience and student outcomes are typically outstanding.
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Poll Books in Special Collections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/04/22/poll-books-in-special-collections/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 22, 2015 With a General Election campaign in full swing, it seems like a good time for some blog posts about the sources we hold on the history of British parliamentary elections.
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The Criminal Corpse and the Competing Claims of Justice and Anatomy. By Richard Ward
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/12/21/richard-ward-the-criminal-corpse-and-the-competing-claims-of-justice-and-anatomy/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on December 21, 2015 The later eighteenth century represents a particular moment when the competing claims of anatomy and criminal justice fought for supremacy over the criminal corpse.
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Research skills training – Spring 2025
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/01/17/research-skills-training-spring-2025/
Advertising the new training program for research students at the University of Leicester in Spring 2025.
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What I Wish I had Known Before Doing This PhD
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2021/01/21/what-i-wish-i-had-known-before-doing-this-phd/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on January 21, 2021 Today’s post is from Graham Frobisher, who is currently studying part-time for a PhD. Let’s get the elephant firmly out of the room, at the age of 73 I am not a typical or even normal PhD student.
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Midwifery training at University College Leicester, 1928-1947
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/05/03/midwifery-training-1928-1947/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 3, 2018 This week the appointment of our first Professors of Nursing and Midwifery have been announced by the University.
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Digital sexual cultures feminist research and engagement consortium
https://le.ac.uk/media/research/featured-projects/digital-sexual-cultures-feminist-research-and-engagement-consortium
Find out more about the digital sexual cultures feminist research and engagement consortium at the University of Leicester.
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Early edition of Frankenstein in University archives gives rise to chilling story around its creation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/early-edition-of-frankenstein-in-university-archives-gives-rise-to-chilling-story-around-its-creation
A popular character during Halloween is the shambling mass of assorted body parts known as Frankenstein’s Monster from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein – a creature who has remained a harrowing vision of what can happen when people try and create unnatural life since its...
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Refugee Week: schoolchildren from Leicester to send messages of hope to refugee camp
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/19-refugee-week-primary-school-messages-of-hope
Children from a Leicester school are to send messages of hope to a refugee camp in Greece. They will also create a storybook which will contain blank cards for children in the refugee camp to fill and send back - starting a dialogue between the children.
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Space Park Leicester to lead key skills development discussion at Ignite Space 2025
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/ignite
Ignite Space conference take place from 5-6 February, where experts from Space Park Leicester will address the pressing skills shortage facing the UK space sector