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Saturn’s high-altitude winds generate an extraordinary aurorae, study finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/saturn-aurorae
Dr Tom Stallard, Associate Professor in Planetary Astronomy at the University of Leicester, added: “The University of Leicester has long been involved in measuring the effects of this new discovery – we’ve observed how the pulsing aurorae and the wobbling magnetic field lines...
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Spanish Beginners (Level 1)
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/spanish/level-1
Spanish course for beginners at Leicester University
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Helping to scaffold students’ reading practices
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2019/09/18/helping-to-scaffold-students-reading-practices/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on September 18, 2019 This is a draft preview version of a resource currently in production.
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Mapping the City with Electric Paint
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/12/12/mapping-the-city-with-electric-paint/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on December 12, 2022 In 2019 I attended an Oral History Society networker event at the British Library and was impressed with work that the Library had done with students from the Royal College of Art School of Communication .
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LGBT Rights Activism at the United Nations and the Geopolitics of Sexuality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2023/05/18/lgbt-rights-activism-at-the-united-nations-and-the-geopolitics-of-sexuality/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on May 18, 2023 By Calogero Giametta Lecturer in Criminology LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans) rights are divisive and prone to instrumentalisation, nationally and globally.
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Using Top Hat to increase student engagement and satisfaction
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2019/04/24/using-top-hat-to-increase-student-engagement-and-satisfaction/
Posted by Rachel Tunstall in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on April 24, 2019 Dr Curro Martinez-Mora in the School of Business has been using Top Hat extensively in the delivery of his Intermediate Microeconomics (EC2002/EC2012) course, working...
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Evading a flogging by the Whipping Toms
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/02/27/evading-a-flogging-by-the-whipping-toms/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on February 27, 2017 Prior to 1846, Leicester had its own very particular way of celebrating Shrove Tuesday, which precedes the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday and was therefore the occasion for an outburst of eating,...
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Incunabula in Special Collections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/04/10/incunabula-in-special-collections/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 10, 2014 For a University the size and age of Leicester the Library has a surprising rich collection of incunabula (books printed before 1501).
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Medical Biosciences (Biochemistry) MBiolSci
https://le.ac.uk/courses/medical-biosciences-biochemistry-mbiolsci/2026
Almost all of the biggest, most impactful breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of disease start with molecular-level analysis of biomolecules.
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Medical Biosciences (Physiology) MBiolSci
https://le.ac.uk/courses/medical-biosciences-physiology-mbiolsci/2026
The human body is a collection of interacting systems that in normal health work smoothly with each other in a self-regulated manner.