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Events
https://le.ac.uk/botanic-garden/events
View all upcoming events that are taking place at the Garden and Arboretum.
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Living in Towns: Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Urbanism
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar2034
Module: AR2034 What did towns look like after Roman decline? When do we see a ‘rebirth’ of towns? Were medieval towns heavily fortified? How clean were medieval towns and households? Were medieval towns dominated by religious structures? These are...
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Convicts and other (“free” and “unfree”) workers. Views from the First ELHN Conference
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/12/19/convicts-and-other-free-and-unfree-workers-views-from-the-first-elhn-conference/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on December 19, 2015 How can we frame convict labour in the broader context of entangled labour relations? This is one of the key-questions in the Carceral Archipelago project, which seeks to understand how (especially...
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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...
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Why Academics Need to Engage in Public and Political Discourse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2020/08/04/why-academics-need-to-engage-in-public-and-political-discourse/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on August 4, 2020 People often struggle to distinguish between the advice of a charlatan and an expert, meaning that academic input into public discussions of important issues such as COVID-19 is vital, writes Aris...
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‘Belonging’ and ‘Resilience’ in Higher Education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/11/15/belonging-and-resilience-in-higher-education/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on November 15, 2017 Back in July, I gave a brief presentation at the University of Leicester’s Annual Learning and Teaching Conference.
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The sweatband: the moral arbiter of our time?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/sweatband
Read the article "The sweatband: the moral arbiter of our time?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Space Technologies to help protect communities and the environment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/space-technologies-to-help-protect-communities-and-the-environment-1
Multi-million pound funding for world-class research at our University, to use space technologies to help herders in Mongolia and monitor tropical forests in SE Asia, has been announced by Science Minister Sam Gyimah.
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Diet and pregnancy case study
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics-and-ethics-and-law/epigenetics/case-studies/diet-pregnancy
Epigenetics, diet and pregnancy is a complex topic, but we've got the relevant resources to aid your learning.
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Researching the history of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/how-to-do-oral-history/leicester-history-resources/researching-leicester
EMOHA has provided ways in which you can research the history of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. This can also be applied to other counties and areas.