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Salt mine in Yorkshire could help to shed light on Martian life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/salt-mine-in-yorkshire-could-help-to-shed-light-on-martian-life
A PhD student is helping to shed light on life on Mars by exploring similar environments on Earth - including an underground salt mine in North Yorkshire.
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George McTurk
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/george-mcturk
We are sad to report the death of George McTurk, a man who served the University for nigh on 40 years in the Geology Department and Pre-Clinical Sciences in the Medical School from 1963 to 2003.
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Coventry Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/11/22/coventry-archives-2/
A description of the collections from Coventry Archives that have been digitised by the UOSH project.
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The forgotten success of penal transportation reform in late Imperial Russia: the lowering of prison
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/08/the-forgotten-success-of-penal-transportation-reform-in-late-imperial-russia-the-lowering-of-prisoner-mortality-in-the-transfer-system-1885-1915/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 8, 2016 By Mikhail Nakonechny . The late Imperial Russian prison and exile system is almost unequivocally considered to be the traditional embodiment of brutality, institutional inhumanity and injustice.
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The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/05/26/the-international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2020 …was created in 2004 to draw the attention to the violence and discrimination experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexuals, transgender, intersex people and all other people with diverse sexual...
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Attenborough Arts announces new partnership with the British Museum
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/aac-british-museum
The University of Leicester’s Attenborough Arts Centre has been named today as one of the British Museum’s key cultural partners for 2021, and will be collaborating on a new innovative national programme for young people named Where we are… Working in partnership with...
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Awardwinning academic rep explains why shes not quite ready to leave Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/award-winning-academic-rep-explains-why-she2019s-not-quite-ready-to-leave-leicester
Dedicated student Aysha Ahmed may be closing the chapter on one part of her student journey at the University of Leicester this week, but she isn’t quite ready to leave us yet.
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Data protection guidance
https://le.ac.uk/library/about/policies/data-protection-guidance
Informal data protection guidance for researchers consulting archives containing information covered under the Data Protection Act 2018 and General Data Protection Regulation 2018.
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Professor David Bradshaw, 1955-2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2016/09/15/professor-david-bradshaw-1955-2016/
Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on September 15, 2016 The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project is deeply sad to announce the untimely passing of our Co-Investigator, David Bradshaw. David had been ill with cancer for some months.
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More people at risk of diabetes could be detected thanks to innovative new partnership
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/diabetes-risk
A tool developed by Leicester Diabetes Centre to identify those at risk of diabetes is set to be used in workplaces and communities to ensure more people receive help earlier.