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  • Dismemberment in Prehistory – Not Just for the Criminally Insane. By Shane McCorristine

    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.

  • December Book Group: Officers and Gentlemen

    Summary of the December 2014 meeting of the Waugh Book Group, Leicester

  • Will the government’s AI action plan be a success?

    University of Leicester expert comments on the UK government's action plan to boost its role in developing and deploying artificial intelligence.

  • Leicester experts uncover secrets of healthy ageing from the world’s oldest person

    Leicester scientists have helped study the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled María Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old

  • Effigies, Real Bodies and Iconoclasm. By Sarah Tarlow

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on February 8, 2016   Last week I was in Chester to examine a PhD thesis there (congratulations to Dr Ruth Nugent – the third person to complete a PhD in the young and dynamic archaeology department there,...

  • Adult education Theres no age limit to learning at Leicester

    Charlotte Barratt works in the Widening Participation team at the University of Leicester: "I work mainly with mature students: My work involves encouraging people over the age of 21 to come to university, to highlight their options and to try and encourage them to come...

  • Leicester experts provide top tips for avoiding food poisoning when preparing Christmas dinner

    Many households around the world will be celebrating Christmas day with a turkey lunch – but the festive meal can be a hidden source of serious food infections unless precautions are taken, according to Dr Primrose Freestone and PhD student Giannis Koukkidis from the...

  • Unemployment Heart Disease prevention fingerprints and babyfarming among research showcased at Festival of Postgraduate Research

    Research into youth unemployment in the East Midlands and unemployment amongst the elderly and unskilled, how manipulations in genetic ‘switches’ can help prevent heart disease, creating new algorithms for fingerprint identification and a re-evaluation of ‘baby-farming’...

  • Midlands Innovation announces plans for technology transfer

    Midlands Innovation, a group of eight universities and one of the UK’s most influential academic collaborations, has launched its plan for collaboration in technology transfer. The announcement was made at an event held at The Shard, London.

  • Seeing stars as graduation celebrates scientists

    All week, the campus has been alive with celebrations with graduands, their parents and friends, and the festivities continued in full swing today as we paid tribute to the achievements of two promiment scientists who have made a unique impact upon their disciplines.

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