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20th September 2016 Sol 1466
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2016/09/20/20th-september-2016-sol-1466/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on September 20, 2016 We have got down a new self portrait of Curiosity from MAHLI. This shows the Murray Butte number 12 – where we have just been drilling – in the ChemCam mirror.
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February 27th 2013 Sol 200
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/02/27/february-27th-2013-sol-200/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 27, 2013 We now have material within Curiosity for the SAM mass spectrometer and the CheMin X-ray Diffraction.
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News and New Normals – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2021/03/22/news-and-new-normals/
This blog post celebrates recent paper presentations and discusses what it has been like for the team to continue scanning during the third national lockdown in England.
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Dryad Collection – S is for Smock and Sheepskin
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/06/29/dryad-collection-s-is-for-smock-and-sheepskin/
Posted by cl13 in Library Special Collections on June 29, 2022 As I continue to catalogue the Dryad Collection , some of the books stand out as belonging to a different era of attitudes towards clothes.
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Equality and Diversity: an example of Socratic Questioning, University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/11/29/equality-and-diversity-an-example-of-socratic-questioning/
Socratic Questioning is a useful tool to further develop a critical analysis. Here it is used to consider how Equality and Diversity might be considered in a learning and teaching context.
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Scottish Independence is too important to be left to the Politicians
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/08/20/scottish-independence-is-too-important-to-be-left-to-the-politicians/
Posted by Thomas Swann in School of Business Blog on August 20, 2014 Thomas Swann, Graduate Teaching Assistant at the School and the recent recipient of a Times Higher Education Best Essay Prize , encourages us to pay more attention to the Grassroots of the movement toward...
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Academic Freedoms and the University Ltd.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/04/09/academic-freedoms-and-the-university-ltd/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on April 9, 2014 Voltaire once wrote “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”. Professor of Organisation and Culture Martin Parker recently found out precisely what he meant.
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The Doctor as a ‘Street-Level Bureaucrat’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/09/23/the-doctor-as-a-street-level-bureaucrat/
Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on September 23, 2018 Why don’t policies play out as planned? It’s a key question in public policy.
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The Plight of the Mandatory Volunteer Worker
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/06/03/the-plight-of-the-mandatory-volunteer-worker/
Posted by Vanessa Beck in School of Business Blog on June 3, 2015 Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, Vanessa Beck , considers the economic implications of the legal expectations placed on the contemporary unemployed The social security and support infrastructure...
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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.