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World Press Freedom Day; 3rd May
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/world-press-freedom-day-3rd-may/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 The UNESCO official website 2019 focuses on the role of the media in the fight against misinformation.
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International day of people with disabilities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/12/07/international-day-of-people-with-disabilities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 7, 2020 3rd December is the International day of people with disabilities. The official UN page has reports, strategies and resolutions .
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Getting by with a little help from our friends
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/07/09/getting-by-with-a-little-help-from-our-friends/
Posted by Jo B in School of Business Blog on July 9, 2014 Professor Jo Brewis, Deputy Head of the School, discusses the under-acknowledged practical and interpersonal consequences of the methodological decisions researchers make The critical tradition of management...
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Real Man, Real Emotions? The Truth behind Nigel Farage’s Cocksure Campaigning
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/04/29/real-man-real-emotions-the-truth-behind-nigel-farages-cocksure-campaigning/
Posted by jcromby in School of Business Blog on April 29, 2015 Recently appointed Reader in Psychology at the School, John Cromb y , provides a disturbingly plausible account of why Nigel Farage’s rhetoric has been so successful.
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The forerunners of Leicester City FC
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/05/06/the-forerunners-of-leicester-city-fc/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 6, 2016 My original intention to write a blog post to mark the 2016 Euros in June has been completely hijacked by Leicester City’s truly amazing performance in the Premier League this season – especially when I...
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Commemorating Samuel Whitbread, 1758-1815
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/onthisdayofwar/2015/06/18/commemorating-samuel-whitbread-1758-1815/
Posted by Philip Shaw in On This Day of War on June 18, 2015 ‘I deny the insane proposition that peace is more dangerous than war’: Commemorating Samuel Whitbread, 1758-1815 By E.J.
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Literary Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/04/25/1926/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on April 25, 2019 The Secret Mystery of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ Working in the archives, I often roll my eyes at newspaper headlines which report on archive material being ‘newly discovered’, suddenly...
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An Academic Literacies Approach to Digital Literacies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/08/16/an-academic-literacies-approach-to-digital-literacies/
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on August 16, 2017 This is an account of my initial attempt to find learning theory to underpin and inform the development of our Digital Literacies framework and its...
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the introductory lecture
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/teachingr/2020/10/12/the-introductory-lecture/
discussion of the main points covered in the introductory lecture
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UK scientists generate electricity from rare element to power future space missions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-americium-electricity-space-power
Experts have generated electricity from a rare chemical element for the first time which may mean future space missions can be powered for up to 400 years.