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• Extraordinary project challenged perceptions of disability and attitudes towards difference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/extraordinary-project-challenged-perceptions-of-disability-and-attitudes-towards-difference

  An extraordinary project led by Leicester brought together 4 artists and 8 of the UK’s most renowned medical museums in a unique collaboration to question and challenge our attitudes towards difference with the aim of stimulating debate around the implications of a society...

• Alec Woodall: PhD reflections

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/graduate-profiles/alex-woodall

  It was with some trepidation but also much excitement that I embarked upon my PhD journey in the School of Museum Studies four years ago (having done Art Gallery Studies in 2004-5 after being a secondary school teacher).

• Jim Roberts

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/jim-roberts

  A Life Lived Well: Jim Roberts (1947-2023) Professor Suzanne MacLeod writes: James (Jim) Roberts was born into a working class-family in Liverpool in 1947.

• Reviewer guidelines

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/about/journals/museum-society/reviewer-guidelines

  Museum and Society is an interdisciplinary journal with a wide-ranging interest in issues associated with museums and other places of public culture concerned with collecting, exhibiting and display.

• Research degrees

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/research-degrees

  Study with us and you will become part of an internationally-renowned research community. Find out more about PhDs in Museum Studies at Leicester.

• MS 210, Ethiopic manuscript, leather slipcase

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/the-beast-in-me-guest-post-by-armand-de-filippo-museum-studies/dav-7/

  2. MS 210, Ethiopic manuscript, leather slipcase with typed labels

• Solving a century-old problem – Ross Parry explains the importance of Museum Data Service

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/museum-service-explained

  Thursday 13 September 2024 marked the launch of a landmark digital service within the UK’s museum sector.

• University of Leicester building officially reopened as Kathleen Kenyon Building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/kathleen-kenyon-building-naming-ceremony

  The University of Leicester's home for the School of Archaeology and Ancient History and the School of Museum Studies has been named after Dame Kathleen Kenyon.

• Project connecting digitally catalogued collections in UK museums receives three years’ funding worth £800,000

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/digitally-catalogued-collections-uk-museums-funding

  Joint venture between the University of Leicester, Art UK and Collections Trust supported by Arts and Humanities Research Council aims to ultimately collect data for 100 million object records

• Contents of display case draw

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/the-beast-in-me-guest-post-by-armand-de-filippo-museum-studies/dav-6/

  7. Display case draw containing oak galls, inks and pigments used by medieval scribes and illuminators.