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Law in Children's Lives: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/licl/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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‘You want Pay-Rise with that?’ Strike Action, Fast-Food Style
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/11/19/you-want-pay-rise-with-that-strike-action-fast-food-style/
Posted by Paul Brook in School of Business Blog on November 19, 2014 In the age of much austerity and few alternatives, Paul Brook , Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Work and Employment at the School, makes a renewed claim for a politics of labour mobilisation Not...
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Leicester Cathedral dig finds coffin of asylum surgeon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/cathedral-dig-surgeon
University of Leicester archaeologists have found the coffin of the first resident medical officer for the Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum in 1836.
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The Marketplace of Life? The Political-Economy of Emergent Water Markets
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2013/12/04/the-marketplace-of-life-the-political-economy-of-emergent-water-markets-2/
Posted by Georgios Patsiaouras in School of Business Blog on December 4, 2013 The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives (American Indian Saying) In 1776 Adam Smith introduced the paradox of value: diamonds are much more expensive than water, even...
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The Jupiter Time Capsule; University of Leicester Staff Blogs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/08/03/the-jupiter-time-capsule/
Juno's microwave instrument will provide new insights into the global composition of Jupiter and the origins of the giant planet.
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On threats to freedom of expression in Hungary: blog post by cartoonist Gabor Papai
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/01/14/on-threats-to-freedom-of-expression-in-hungary-blog-post-by-cartoonist-gabor-papai/
A blog post written by cartoonsit Gabor Papai on freedom of expression in Hungary and during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Earth-based observations prepare Juno for the Great Red Spot Encounter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2017/06/30/earth-based-observations-prepare-juno-for-the-great-red-spot-encounter/
University of Leicester staff blogs
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10th November 2017 Sol 1871 – Scottish Quadrangle on Mars
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/11/10/10th-november-2017-sol-1871-scottish-quadrangle-on-mars/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 10, 2017 The field area for Curiosity along its traverse (currently nearly 18 km) is divided into a series of map qaudrangles. Each of these has outcrop and feature names based on a region of Earth e.g.
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Political Cartooning in Côte d’Ivoire: Interview with Lassane Zohoré
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/05/11/political-cartooning-in-cote-divoire-interview-with-lassane-zohore/
Political cartoonist Lassane Zohoré (Côté d'Ivoire) is interviewed by Dr James Illingworth for the Covid in Cartoons project.
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Dismemberment in Prehistory – Not Just for the Criminally Insane. By Shane McCorristine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/11/23/shane-mccorristine-dismemberment-in-prehistory-not-just-for-the-criminally-insane/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on November 23, 2015 Francisco Goya, “Great deeds! Against the dead!” (1810s). Source: Wikimedia Commons. For as long as humans have been around we have cut up, hacked, butchered, and mutilated corpses.