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Research Methods in Cancer Biology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mb7003
Module code: MB7003 When a gene is found to be mutated in a cancer, we first need to understand how its protein product functions and then how the mutated protein alters the behaviour of cancer cells. For example, cancer cells show uncontrolled cell proliferation.
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Yearbook Physics Astronomy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/12/18/announcing-the-2020-yearbook/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 18 December 2020 Twelve months ago, as the Leicester Physics News Team were pulling together stories for our first-ever Yearbook 2019 , we could never have imagined the strange world we find ourselves in at...
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University sports teams ready for Varsity clashes across Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/varsity
The first Varsity ‘season’ took place on one day in March 2000, when football, rugby, hockey and netball teams from both universities faced off against one another across the city.
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Leicester in 1945 – the British Council & Harold White
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/05/01/leicester-in-1945-the-british-council-harold-white/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on May 1, 2019 A few years ago, when I was working at the East Midlands Oral History Archive, I planned an oral history project that would record people’s memories of the immediate post-war years in Leicester.
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Caring for our Special Collections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/08/06/caring-for-our-special-collections/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on August 6, 2015 Visitors to Special Collections often ask how we preserve the rare books, manuscripts and archives in our collection. Much of what we do could be described as preventative care.
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Winners of Festival of Postgraduate Research 2015 announced
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/winners-of-festival-of-postgraduate-research-2015-announced
The winners of the Festival of Postgraduate Research 2015 have been announced. During the Festival our University gets to showcase the best of its research student talent and this year the standard of entries was very high.
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Professionalism – the Wisdom of the Minions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2016/08/04/professionalism-the-wisdom-of-the-minions/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on August 4, 2016 Following from the release of the Minions movie, and of course not forgetting their impact via ‘Despicable me’, I must confess to having a feed from their “wisdom of the minions”.
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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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Lesbian Herstory Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/07/13/lesbian-herstory-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 13, 2021 Lesbian Herstory Archives: https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org/ “The Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather, preserve and provide access to records of Lesbian lives and activities.
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Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/12/14/comparing-gender-and-media-equality-across-the-globe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2020 GEM, a research project led by the University of Gothenberg, has culminated in an open-access book: Comparing Gender and Media Across the Globe : A cross-national study of the...