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HRH Princess Royal visit
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/hrh-princess-royal-visit
HRH The Princess Royal is to boldly go on a mission into space - well, the National Space Centre in Leicester. The Centre is the brainchild of the University and was co-founded by the University.
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Martin Parker: Page 3
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/mp431/page/3/
Professor of Culture and Organisation.
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Is homework pointless?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/05/is-homework-pointless/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 With the return of the university academic year some TV programmes have discussed whether homework matters.
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Convicts, Collecting and Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Century
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/27/convicts-collecting-and-knowledge-production-in-the-nineteenth-century/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 27, 2015 In previous blogs, I have explored some of the circulations and connections that linked nations, colonies and empires, and wove together practices of punishment and penal labour across polities and imperial spaces.
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Using Theory in Improvement Research – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2015/06/25/theory-in-improvement/
This SAPPHIRE blog argues that far from being overly complex and irrelevant, theory has a practical role to play in healthcare improvement. We all need to work to make theory more accessible for the front-line practitioners doing improvement work.
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Seeds from Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor tree take root in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/seeds-hiroshima-atomic-bomb-survivor-tree-take-root-leicester
Seeds from trees which survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima have taken root in Leicester in time for the 80th anniversary of VJ Day.
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Leicester to lead Royal Astronomical Society livestream of Uranus
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/10/06/leicester-to-lead-royal-astronomical-society-livestream-of-uranus/
Leicester to lead Royal Astronomical Society livestream of Uranus
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Europeana story dice
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/story-dice/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 Europeana is a cultural heritage site containing images and ephemera from Europe’s major libraries and cultural institutions. Its fun story dice kit can be downloaded and used in teaching.
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Our approach
https://le.ac.uk/research/gcrf/approach
Research England At the University of Leicester, they have clearly placed developing countries as the prime beneficiaries of their activities, have clear priorities in the case of funding increases or decreases, and have developed a theory of change to evaluate impact.
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Immersive exhibition sheds new light on Calke Abbey’s ‘isolated’ family and gets people talking about loneliness and isolation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/01-calke-abbey
The installation of the interpretation of the library as it was constructed.