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The largest prison in the world
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/12/19/reflections-on-the-worlds-largest-prison/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on December 19, 2014 Several days ago, I broke from reading through the notes of nineteenth-century Russian penal inspectors to admire the 23rd edition of the International Prison News Digest , a publication of the Institute...
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Assessment as dialogue
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/09/19/assessment-as-dialogue/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on September 19, 2016 The following is a brief summary of a session on assessment as dialogue. The session ran on Wednesday, 14 th September, as part of the LLI’s Focus On… activities .
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Cartooning: A Delicate Art Form that Needs to be Preserved
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2021/12/28/cartooning-delicate-art-form-needs-preserved/
Political cartoonist Michel Kichka (Israel) is interviewed by Shout Out UK Young Writer William Speakman.
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Waugh Geography quiz
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/04/04/geographyquiz/
A geography quiz based on the novles of Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1986
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Ethnic differences in need for heart pacemakers may have genetic link
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/ethnic-differences-in-need-for-heart-pacemakers-may-have-genetic-link
Researchers have found evidence to show that South Asian people (from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) are less likely to require a pacemaker for an abnormally low heart rate compared to white people of European origin.
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Garth Smithies Taylor (1896-1916)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/14/garth-smithies-taylor-1896-1916/
15 October 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Lieutenant Garth Smithies Taylor, a name which many staff and students at the University will have unwittingly passed on numerous occasions when entering the Fielding Johnson Building.
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Academic and research staff
https://le.ac.uk/gge/people/academic
Browse the academic staff who work, teach and research in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, and see their contact details.
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gesisDataSearch: a Data Discovery Index for the Social Sciences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/20/gesisdatasearch-a-data-discovery-index-for-the-social-sciences/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2018 Now in beta, a new tool which will enable researchers to quickly identify high quality social and economic datasets.
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Bo Tian
https://le.ac.uk/people/dr-bo-tian
The academic profile of Dr Bo Tian, Lecturer in Engineering at University of Leicester
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Poll Books in Special Collections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/04/22/poll-books-in-special-collections/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 22, 2015 With a General Election campaign in full swing, it seems like a good time for some blog posts about the sources we hold on the history of British parliamentary elections.