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• An Academic Literacies Approach to Digital Literacies

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/08/16/an-academic-literacies-approach-to-digital-literacies/

  Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on August 16, 2017   This is an account of my initial attempt to find learning theory to underpin and inform the development of our Digital Literacies framework and its...

• First study examining pregnancy in the Viking Age: Pregnant women wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers, but also a harsh world where not all newborns were given burial or born free 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/first-study-into-pregnancy-in-viking-age

  A new, interdisciplinary study is the first focused examination of pregnancy in the Viking Age.

• University of Leicester Academic staff blogs home

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/

  Academic and Staff blogs written by current University of Leicester research, teaching and support staff. See what makes this Top 20 university a leader in innovative, world-changing research and inspirational passionate teaching.

• Leicester “leads the way” on new National Space Strategy

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/uk-space-strategy

  The University of Leicester has today (Monday) welcomed publication of the UK Government’s new National Space Strategy.

• Audiovisual Heritage at the University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/10/21/audiovisual-heritage-at-the-university-of-leicester/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 21, 2019   Sunday 27th October 2019 is UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. To join in the celebrations, this blog post looks at some of the Audiovisual Heritage work done at the University of Leicester.

• 2001 - 2005

  https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2001-05

  Expedition 310 Tahiti Sea Level Fall 2005 The IODP Tahiti Sea Level Expedition 310 in 2005 was initiated to investigate global sea level rise since the last glacial maximum, approximately 23,000 years ago, to learn more about the timing and course of past global sea level...

• Students discover Leicesters literary secrets on Joe Orton walking tour

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/students-discover-leicesters-literary-secrets-on-joe-orton-walking-tour

  This year the University of Leicester has been celebrating the work of Joe Orton. The Leicester-born playwright is one of our city’s most treasured cultural icons and 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of his tragic death.

• Book Group: A Tourist in Africa

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/06/29/tourist-2/

  Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on June 29, 2015 First Edition of A Tourist in Africa (1960) Before last Saturday, I kept quiet about A Tourist in Africa ’s reputation as Waugh’s ‘worst book’.

• The Re-Emergence of ‘Race’ in the Rhetoric of the British Radical Right

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2024/01/11/the-re-emergence-of-race-in-the-rhetoric-of-the-british-radical-right/

  Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on January 11, 2024 Chris Allen – Associate Professor Around the turn of the century, an ideological turn was evident within the British far-right milieu.

• Expert opinions cover the British Empire air pollution the CIA and how society sleeps

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/expert-opinions-cover-the-british-empire-air-pollution-the-cia-and-how-society-sleeps

  Dr Stan Neal from the School of History, Politics and International Relations has written an article for The Conversation about how the British Empire facilitated the movement of migrant workers in the 19th century and beyond.