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Vile Bodies: The photograph! The painting! The half-finished book!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/04/14/duncanm/
A biographical article by Duncan McClaren on Waugh's first marriage and the writing of Vile Bodies.
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University of Leicester appoints Science Museum Principal Curator for key leadership post
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/tilly-blyth
The Science Museum’s Head of Collections and Principal Curator will join the University of Leicester as its new Head of the School of Museum Studies.
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Scientists investigating the causes of dementia have found key similarities between different diseases, paving the way for effective new diagnostics and treatment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/alzheimers
Experts looking into conditions including Alzheimers, Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies have found there are similar processes and biomarkers that link them
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What do Uranuss cloud tops have in common with rotten eggs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/what-do-uranus2019s-cloud-tops-have-in-common-with-rotten-eggs
Hydrogen sulphide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their charm, appears to permeate the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus – as has been long debated, but never definitively proven.
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New board appointed to advise on future space innovation in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/space-advisory-board-innovation
A new board has been created which will further strengthen Leicester’s pivotal role at the heart of UK space innovation. Leicester is one of the world’s most active cities for space research and has contributed to space exploration for more than six decades.
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Waugh and Words: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 4
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/page/4/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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European Space Agency Education Symposium comes to Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/13-european-space-agency
Earlier this year, our Doctoral College was approached by the West Indian Senior Citizens Project (WISCP), asking if some of our doctoral and early career researchers would present their findings as part of the WISCP Awareness and Wellbeing Week.
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Graham Martin
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/author/gpm7/
Graham originally trained in geography and after he finished his Master’s, started his first academic job as a research assistant in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Leicester, one of the departments that evolved into the current Department of Health Sciences.
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COP28 redux: Where are we in the climate fight?
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/tim-neff-cop28
Lecturer in Journalism, Timothy Neff, attended COP28 to cover the conference’s side events. Here, he blogs about what he discovered while out in Dubai…
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Impossible Desires: the Novels and Films of Shamim Sarif
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2015/06/25/impossible-desires-the-novels-and-films-of-shamim-sarif/
Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on June 25, 2015 As part of my Queer Diasporas project, I’ve been researching the work of the still not too widely known British novelist and filmmaker Shamim Sarif, whose existence I’ve been...