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Asking the questions
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/how-to-do-oral-history/interviewing/questions
Get more information on the best way to ask questions, as well as advice on listening skills, eye contact and non-verbal behaviour in order to get the most out of your interviews.
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Winchcombe Meteorite on BBC East Midlands
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2023/01/13/winchcombe-meteorite-on-bbc-east-midlands/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 13 January 2023 PhD student Niamh Topping on BBC East Midlands last night discussing findings from research taking place into the Winchcombe meteorite fall. You can watch the footage below.
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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
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Welcome to the Criminal Corpse Blog
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/09/01/welcome-blog-2/
Posted by Sarah Tarlow in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on September 1, 2015 Speaking as an old and ugly academic, I’ve come to realise that sometimes it takes a transfusion of young and energetic blood into an established project to liven it up.
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Leicester experts comment on Westminster terror attack
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-experts-comment-on-westminster-terror-attack
Experts at our University have commented on the recent terrorist attack outside Westminster, which took place on Wednesday 22 March.
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Groundbreaking research identifies what makes human brains – and humans – unique in the animal world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-concept-cells
A neuroscientist at the University of Leicester has identified a fundamental difference between human and animal brains. This breakthrough, published today in the journal Cell, offers an explanation for what makes Homo sapiens so vastly different from even our nearest relatives.
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Canadian Rugby World Cup visit coincides with World War One study into autograph books by servicemen
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/canadian-rugby-world-cup-visit-coincides-with-world-war-one-study-into-2018autograph-books2019-by-servicemen
As the Canadian rugby team takes on Romania in Leicester today, researchers have been examining new evidence about a very different group of Canadian men who spent time in Leicester exactly 100 years ago.
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History of 19th century building on campus revealed
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/history-of-19th-century-building-on-campus-revealed
New information about the history of 1 Salisbury Road was revealed during a visit by Dr Sula Ellis to the East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA), which is based in the building.
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Celebrating the Chinese New Year on campus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/celebrating-the-chinese-new-year-on-campus
Celebrations for the Chinese New Year (CNY) will begin today and the University and Students’ Union are marking the incoming Year of the Rooster in a number of ways: Free fortune cookies and red envelopes with prizes in the Percy Gee Building CNY decorations in the Charles...
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The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 1: forgetting what we know about knowledge.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-1-forgetting-what-we-know-about-knowledge/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 One of the many poorly-framed, point-missing ‘debates’ that regularly plague contemporary education goes something like this: ‘should education be focused primarily on...