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Sludge in Healthcare
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/10/18/82/
Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on October 18, 2018 This week Richard Thaler, who wrote ‘Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness ’, published “Nudge, Not Sludge” in Science .
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The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 1: forgetting what we know about knowledge.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-1-forgetting-what-we-know-about-knowledge/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 One of the many poorly-framed, point-missing ‘debates’ that regularly plague contemporary education goes something like this: ‘should education be focused primarily on...
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Rest in Pieces: The story of a hanged woman and her journey to becoming a museum object. By Ali Well
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/07/27/rest-in-pieces/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on July 27, 2016 When referring to “skeletons in the cupboard” we rarely expect these to be literally true, but in the case of Mary Ann Higgins and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, it is.
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New MA in Creative Writing
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2016/04/27/new-ma-in-creative-writing/
Posted by Jonathan Taylor in School of English Blog on April 27, 2016 The School of English now has a full Master’s (M.A.) programme in Creative Writing.
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PGR Careers blog University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2014/05/19/pgr-career-blog/
PGR Careers blog from the University of Leicester
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Physics and Astronomy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/author/paul_mcmillan/
Centenary celebrations Posted by Physics and Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 21 May 2025 The first students to study physics at what was then University College, Leicester were enrolled in 1925. A class of 10 students were enrolled, and a single lecturer appointed.
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The Languages Gateway
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/14/the-languages-gateway/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2025 Officially launched at a recent University of London event, this portal is supported by a group of leading organisations in the field of languages, skills and education: The British...
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Biotechnology YES and Environment YES
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2015/03/30/biotech-yes-and-environ-yes/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on March 30, 2015 Once again applications are open for the 2015 versions of Biotechnology YES and Environment YES .
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Bawa-Garba and The Williams Review: NHS Leadership at the Highest Level
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/08/17/bawa-garba-and-the-williams-review-nhs-leadership-at-the-highest-level/
Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on August 17, 2018 This week many doctors were relieved that Hadiza Bawa-Garba ‘s appeal against her erasure from the medical register was successful.
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History of Economic Thought revamp
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/23/history-of-economic-thought-revamp/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 23, 2016 The website History of Economic Thought re-launched recently thanks to support from the Institute for New Economic Thinking . Run by Gonçalo L.