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• Managing Knowledge: Dictionaries and Ideology

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en7219

  Module code: EN7219 This module traces the beginnings of the modern dictionary in the work of Samuel Johnson and his contemporaries, but concentrates on the great dictionary projects of the nineteenth century, particularly: the Oxford English Dictionary Roget’s...

• A brace of Times Higher Education Awards nominations for Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/a-brace-of-times-higher-education-awards-nominations-for-leicester

  A brace of Times Higher Education Awards nominations for Leicester A brace of Times Higher Education Awards nominations for Leicester|University shortlisted for Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and DataPoints Merit Award The University of...

• PowerPoint doesn’t kill presentations – people do

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/03/06/powerpoint-doesnt-kill-presentations-people-do/

  Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on March 6, 2017 Bent Meier Sørensen, a Professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen University wrote an impressive article in The Independent last...

• Brian Burch OBE

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2021/brian-burch

  We have learned, with regret, of the death of Brian Burch OBE, who served as University Librarian  from 1982 to 1995 and also wrote the definitive history of the University.

• Blown away One Show feature on the marvels of scientific glassblowing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/blown-away-one-show-feature-on-the-marvels-of-scientific-glassblowing

  Tucked away in our Department of Chemistry is a workshop where Gayle Price, the University’s Scientific Glassblower, spends her time creating specialised glassware and apparatus for research and teaching purposes.

• University cricketers highlight the need for blood donation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/university-cricketers-highlight-the-need-for-blood-donation

  Players from the University of Leicester first and seconds cricket team and development squad dressed in their cricket whites to donate blood and help save and improve lives.

• What the Hong Kong Occupation has Already Achieved

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/11/10/what-the-hong-kong-occupation-has-already-achieved/

  Posted by Rutvica Andrijasevic in School of Business Blog on November 10, 2014 Rutvica Andrijasevic, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, overviews some provisional findings from the research she has been doing into the ongoing protest   While ‘Occupy Central’...

• Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh (1903-1966)

  https://le.ac.uk/evelyn-waugh/about/evelyn-waugh-biography

  Read the biography of Evelyn Waugh, one of the twentieth century's most diverse and prolific writers. Find out more about the life of Evelyn Waugh and the complete works project at the University of Leicester.

• Economics in the Rear-View Mirror

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/12/economics-in-the-rear-view-mirror/

  Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2015 Joseph Schumpeter, who taught at Harvard from 1932 to 1950. Image licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.

• Contextual offers

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/admissions/after-applying/undergraduates/your-offer/contextual

  With our commitment to equal opportunities, a contextual offer means that Leicester will take into consideration contextual data in your application to fully understand your academic potential.