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My Suffering is my Badge of Honour
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2019/05/21/my-suffering-is-my-badge-of-honour/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on May 21, 2019 Last week I attended the first International Conference on the Mental Health & Wellbeing of Postgraduate Researchers.
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Congratulations to Sarah Casewell and the Backyard Worlds Team
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/24/congratulations-to-sarah-casewell-and-the-backyard-worlds-team/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 24 June 2021 Enormous congratulations to the Backyard Worlds Team, including Leicester scientist Dr. Sarah Casewell, on being the 2021 recipients of a Robert H Goddard award for science.
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Resilience – Is it about being a swan on a lake?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/12/06/resilience-is-it-about-being-a-swan-on-a-lake/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on December 6, 2018 One of the key facets employers seek in potential new employees is resilience. Indeed, resilience is right up there with the key soft skills that make an individual employable.
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Beautiful and Artistic – Marbled Endpapers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/06/30/beautiful-and-artistic-marbled-endpapers/
Posted by Karin Li in Library and Learning Services on June 30, 2023 During my time here in Archives and Special Collections I want to highlight something I have found interesting – the distinct patterns found in some rare books.
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Is there Life on Mars? National Space Centre Q&A with Lewis Dartnell
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/03/11/is-there-life-on-mars-national-space-centre-qa-with-lewis-dartnell/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 11 March 2021 Join the National Space Centre Team on Friday 12 March, 19:00-20:00, to ask Professor Lewis Dartnell your questions about Life on Mars. Lewis is a research scientist, presenter and author.
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“So, can we say ‘skills’?”
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/06/12/so-can-we-say-skills/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 12, 2018 As those whose unhappy lot in life it is to have to listen to me moaning on about matters educational will know, I’m not a big fan of the term ‘skills’.
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Christian De Vito
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/author/cdv8/
I am research associate on the Carceral Archipelago project, focusing on convict circulation in the late-colonial and post-colonial Latin America. And I am honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).
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Critical Management in Action: “Social Media Free Day”
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/03/21/critical-management-in-action-social-media-free-day/
Posted by Jennifer Smith Maguire in School of Business Blog on March 21, 2014 Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, outlines the motivation behind an experiment-in-abstinence undertaken by some of her freshman tutees.
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How video can support active learning
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/11/21/how-video-can-support-active-learning/
Posted by Rachel Tunstall in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on November 21, 2018 I recently attended the Panopto EMEA Annual Conference in London.
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CassiniHuygens will truly be the benchmark against which all future space missions are compared
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/201ccassini-huygens-will-truly-be-the-benchmark-against-which-all-future-space-missions-are-compared201d
After almost twenty years in space, the Cassini spacecraft will tomorrow (15 September) make its final encounter with Saturn, ending humankind’s first detailed exploration of the ringed planet.