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Phenomenal space explosion astonishes Leicester researchers and shines a light on our own galaxy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/gamma-ray-burst-swift
University of Leicester researchers have played crucial roles in discovering and analysing a gamma-ray burst at least 10 times brighter than anything NASA’s Swift mission has seen before.
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PhD students
https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/people/phd
Browse our current PhD students in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and see their contact details.
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Leicester Cultural Quarter’s post-industrial past to be explored
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/02/07/leicester-cultural-quarters-post-industrial-past-to-be-explored/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on February 7, 2014 Talented writers will be able to tell the untold stories of the post-industrial past of Leicester’s Cultural Quarter, thanks to a new project from the School of English.
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The New Luciad
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/02/12/the-new-luciad/
University of Leicester staff blogs Creative Writing
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Black History Month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/07/black-history-month-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2022 Essential Guide to Black British History A handy guide produced by BBC History Extra magazine which is designed to interest the general reader.
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Social media and universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/07/social-media-and-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 7, 2014 Social Media: When Should the University Intervene? An interesting article from Australia currently available free of charge from the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management.
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Global Social Responses to Covid-19 Web Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/global-social-responses-to-covid-19-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 The Ivy Plus web archive is creating a record of the evolution of Covid-19’s social impact since March 2020 by preserving snapshots of key websites from areas of the global...
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Economists on Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/economists-on-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 The working paper site RePEc has just launched its own directory of economists who tweet.
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2025 Spring Statement resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/28/2025-spring-statement-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2025 UK government background briefing: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10220/ Spring Statement Information: https://www.gov.
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Internet and news media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/04/internet-and-news-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2011 How People Use Tablets and What it Means for the Future of News http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/tablet A report from the Pew Research Centre for Excellence in Journalism.