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• True crime wine-tasting event returns to Cardiff to mark Pride Celebrations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/wine-and-crime

  Dr Angela Muir is a Lecturer in British Social and Cultural History and the Director of the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Leicester.

• The Two Fredericks: A snapshot of male intimacy in prison

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/09/30/the-two-fredericks-cockatoo-island/

  Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on September 30, 2016 In the 1840s, campaigners for the abolition of convict transportation engaged in a campaign of scare-mongering about the prevalence of sexual acts between male convicts (dubbed “unnatural acts”).

• Leicester scientists investigating ancient freshwater hundreds of metres below the sea floor

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/scientists-ancient-freshwater-below-sea-floor

  International expedition off the coast of New England (Massachusetts, USA) includes researchers from the University of Leicester aiming to explore ancient freshwater systems below the ocean floor and up to 100 miles offshore

• New analysis reveals the brutal history of the Winchcombe meteorite’s journey through space

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/winchcombe-meteorite

  Famous meteorite undergoes scientific analysis, including advanced electron microscopy at University of Leicester, providing insight into the meteorite’s journey through space to Earth

• Lucy Ellis

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/lucy-ellis

  It is with great sadness that we share news of the death of Lucy Ellis, our colleague in Library and Learning Services. Lucy was taken ill earlier this year and had been receiving ongoing treatment.

• Interview with Sharon Wang

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2021/05/31/introducing-dr-sharon-wang-postdoctoral-research-associate-maths-for-arch-i-scan/

  Interview with Dr. Sharon (Shuihua) Wang, the new Mathematics Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Arch-I-Scan project.

• Supporting assessment tasks in seminars and group tutorials

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2019/09/18/supporting-assessment-tasks-in-seminars-and-group-tutorials/

  Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on September 18, 2019 This is a draft preview version of a resource currently in production.

• Catherine Leyland

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/author/cl250/

  Learning Technologist in the Leicester Learning Institute.

• The learning outcomes teachers should set for themselves – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2015/02/26/teacherlos/

  The 'Learning Outcomes Project' at the University of Leicester. The learning outcomes teachers should set for themselves.

• Juno’s science – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/20/junos-science-what-do-we-hope-to-learn/

  What do we hope to learn from the Juno mission?