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Dismemberment in Prehistory – Not Just for the Criminally Insane. By Shane McCorristine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/11/23/shane-mccorristine-dismemberment-in-prehistory-not-just-for-the-criminally-insane/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on November 23, 2015 Francisco Goya, “Great deeds! Against the dead!” (1810s). Source: Wikimedia Commons. For as long as humans have been around we have cut up, hacked, butchered, and mutilated corpses.
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Cutting for Stone: Perception and Comfort in Patient-Centred Care
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2016/03/14/cutting-for-stone/
A review of Abraham Verghese's 2009 novel 'Cutting for Stone' which examines the novel's presentation of the importance of observation skills and compassionate care.
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Jacqueline Wilson describes her prolific writing career as part of Literary Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/jacqueline-wilson-describes-her-prolific-writing-career-as-part-of-literary-leicester
All public tickets have been allocated for this event Former Children's Laureate and Tracy Beaker creator Jacqueline Wilson will visit Leicester's De Montfort Hall this month as part of our University's annual celebration of the written word.
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Project overview
https://le.ac.uk/ageing-and-reading/overview
This research project involves co-registration: simultaneously recording eye movements using a high-precision eye-tracker and electroencephalographic (EEG) measures of brain activity from electrodes placed on the scalp during natural sentence reading.
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Video essays tell womens compelling stories
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/video-essays-tell-womens-compelling-stories
The powerful testimonies of women’s lived experience in challenging environments is being captured in a series of compelling ‘video essays’ as part of a project to re-envision nature writing.
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University contributes rare manuscript to major Sikh exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/university-contributes-rare-manuscript-to-major-sikh-exhibition
Our University is contributing a rare Sikh manuscript to a major exhibition showcasing unseen relics and artefacts from the 19th Century Anglo Sikh Wars.
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Moonstruck Exhibition eclipses expectations
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/moonstruck-exhibition-eclipses-expectations
Record numbers of visitors attended Leicester Cathedral for a University-sponsored British Science Week Festival event in the city.
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‘You want Pay-Rise with that?’ Strike Action, Fast-Food Style
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/11/19/you-want-pay-rise-with-that-strike-action-fast-food-style/
Posted by Paul Brook in School of Business Blog on November 19, 2014 In the age of much austerity and few alternatives, Paul Brook , Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Work and Employment at the School, makes a renewed claim for a politics of labour mobilisation Not...
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Scaling Out: Thinking About Sustainability, Food and Fashion
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/11/11/scaling-out-thinking-about-sustainability-food-and-fashion/
Posted by Jennifer Smith Maguire in School of Business Blog on November 11, 2015 Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, Jennifer Smith Maguire , considers the outgrowths of a recent School based workshop Several years ago I bought a schizostylis...
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Pioneering Leicester researcher ready for ‘mind-blowing’ space images
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/naomi-rowe-gurney
Raised in Newbury, Berskhire – on Watership Down, made famous by the fantasy novel – Naomi is also a pioneer as the first Black woman to receive a PhD from Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy.