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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.
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Monday 8th October Sol 62
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/10/08/monday-8th-october-sol-62/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on October 8, 2012 The first of our scoops is going well with the soil vibrated in the scoop to remove any excess.
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In which British city do people earn the most?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/in-which-british-city-do-people-earn-the-most/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Find out this and other fascinating facts and figures on the economic and social indicators of Britain’s major cities by consulting the latest Cities outlook 2016 which has just...
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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.
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University of Leicester provides outstanding teacher training, says Ofsted
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/teacher-training
Ofsted, the government inspector of educational institutions has concluded that University of Leicester's initial teacher training courses are of the highest standard.
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Juno and Leicester – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/23/juno-and-the-university-of-leicester/
University of Leicester's history in space and planetary sciences, and the relation to the Juno mission today.
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The Carceral Archipelago Conference, Leicester 13-16 September 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/09/21/the-carceral-archipelago-conference-leicester-13-16-september-2015/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on September 21, 2015 The Carceral Archipelago conference , held in Leicester from 13 to 16 September 2015, felt just like reading over thirty outstanding monographs in two-and-a-half days, getting to know their authors...
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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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As China opens the worlds longest glassbottomed bridge researcher highlights how glass was a symbol of power to ancient cultures
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/as-china-opens-the-worlds-longest-glass-bottomed-bridge-researcher-highlights-how-glass-was-a-2018symbol-of-power2019-to-ancient-cultures
Last weekend, the world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge opened to visitors in central China, connecting two mountain cliffs in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province.
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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.