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  • The Two Fredericks: A snapshot of male intimacy in prison

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/09/30/the-two-fredericks-cockatoo-island/

    Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on September 30, 2016 In the 1840s, campaigners for the abolition of convict transportation engaged in a campaign of scare-mongering about the prevalence of sexual acts between male convicts (dubbed “unnatural acts”).

  • Educational experiments arrive safely at International Space Station

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/educational-experiments-arrive-safely-in-space

    A kit of experiments to teach fundamental physics and chemistry to UK students has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) for British European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake to run during his six month mission in space.

  • Oral history projects in Rutland

    https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/directory-of-oral-history/east-midlands/rutland

    Browse projects and oral history materials from Rutland, including the Heritage of Rutland Water, a project about England's largest man-made lake in its smallest county.

  • Medicine offers weight-loss hope for patients with type-2 diabetes

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/surpass-2

    New research by academics at the University of Leicester published today (Friday) has given fresh hope to patients with type-2 diabetes, after Eli Lilly and Company’s SURPASS-2 clinical trial showed that 60% of patients achieved a 10% percent or greater weight loss with 15 mg...

  • Leicester Physicists at the UK in Space Festival

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2023/06/27/leicester-physicists-at-the-uk-in-space-festival/

    Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 27 June 2023 From Mars, to Jupiter, and the planets beyond our solar system, University of Leicester researchers will join experts at the National Space Centre on July 2nd with their insights into our...

  • Legal drugs: all the pros and none of the cons?

    https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/legal-drugs

    Read the article "Legal drugs: all the pros and none of the cons?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

  • Landmark Poetry

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/landmark-poetry

    On Wednesday 9 May, celebrated writer and broadcaster Lemn Sissay MBE will be discussing Landmark Poetry at the University of Leicester’s 7th Annual Creative Writing Lecture. Lemn Sissay is the author of several books of poetry alongside articles, records, public art, and plays.

  • Are museums ‘safe spaces for debate’? Not always…

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/09/06/are-museums-safe-spaces-for-debate-not-always/

    Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on September 6, 2017 I keep hearing people talk about museums being ‘safe spaces for debate’, and this always makes me feel a little uncomfortable.

  • The Cultural Value of Engaging with Museums and Galleries

    https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/engaging-with-museums-2

    This event explored the findings of RCMG’s research on the cultural value of museums and galleries.

  • History and Security Sector Reform: Crime and Punishment in British Colonial Guyana, 1814-1966

    https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/history-and-security-sector-reform

    Over the past two years there has been a general shift in models of incarceration in the former British colony of Guyana, from punishment (punitive measures) to correction and rehabilitation (via training and education).

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