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Pint of Science festival returns to Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/pint-of-science
Tickets have launched for the world’s largest festival of public science talks, which will see more than 20 scientists take to the stage in venues across Leicester.
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Expert opinions cover publishing difficulties political rivalries Donald Trump and RRS Boaty McBoatface
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/expert-opinions-cover-the-difficulties-of-being-published-when-covering-hard-to-classify-topics
Professor Martin Parker from the School of Management has written an article for the Times Higher Education about the difficulties of being published when writing about difficult-to-classify topics, such as those of an interdisciplinary nature.
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Improvement Science Fellowship
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2017/02/14/improvement-sci-fellowship/
SAPPHIRE’s Natalie Armstrong has recently been awarded a Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellowship, in this blog she reflects on her experiences so far and what she’ll be getting up to over the next three years.
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Eight Weeks with Ghost Signs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/09/04/eight-weeks-with-ghost-signs/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on September 4, 2024 by Grace McWeeney As part of a Museum Studies 8-week work placement program, I worked with the Ghost Signs Collection at the University of Leicester. These are a few things I learned along the way.
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Evelyn Waugh Conference 2015 – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/05/26/evelyn-waugh-conference-2015/
Write up of Evelyn Waugh and His Circle: Reading and Editing the Complete Works conference
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Response by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys to Honorary Degree Oration, July 2004
https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/honorary-degree-oration/honorary-degree-response
Professor Jeffreys response to being awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science at the University of Leicester.
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A legal war is no less lethal.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/helendexter/2016/07/08/a-legal-war-is-no-less-lethal/
Posted by Helen Dexter in I love to doubt as well as know: A blog about teaching and politics on July 8, 2016 The question of the legality of the war in Iraq was, quite deliberately, beyond the scope of Chilcot Enquiry and the report published yesterday makes no direct...
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Preserving the grave
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/preserving-the-grave
One problem faced by the team was, how best to preserve the grave for posterity. Under normal circumstances, the best protection is to carefully cover the archaeology with a protective membrane and rebury it.
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Study
https://le.ac.uk/cls/study
The College of Life Sciences offers a wide range of courses for undergraduates and postgraduates, alongside our outstanding research departments and centres.
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Invisible Hands, and the Market as Storytelling
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/10/23/invisible-hands-and-the-market-as-storytelling/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on October 23, 2017 Valerie Hamilton, co-author of Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England with Martin Parker from ULSB muses on the way in which Adam Smith and subsequent economists have used the famous metaphor of an...