Search

14206 results for: ‘museum studies’

• Accessible, inclusive and relevant - RCMG

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/social-justice/rcmg

  Working with museums, galleries and heritage sites to enable them to become more accessible, inclusive and relevant.

• Events

  https://le.ac.uk/translation-interpreting-studies/events

  We organise regular research seminars and conferences and host visiting speakers. Learn more about some of our recent events in the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies.

• Study finds higher-earning men would take a pay cut to spend more time with partners

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/study-finds-higher-earning-men-would-take-a-pay-cut-to-spend-more-time-with-partners

  Most men in Europe want to spend fewer hours at work and more time with their families even though it would cut their income, a major study on employment published in the journal Sociology shows.

• 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...

• Frost Fairs on the Thames

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/12/01/frost-fairs-on-the-thames/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on December 1, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Francesco Bartolozzi. From the Fairclough Collection, EP 36, Box 7, p. 590.

• Leicester in 1945 – the British Council & Harold White

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/05/01/leicester-in-1945-the-british-council-harold-white/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on May 1, 2019 A few years ago, when I was working at the East Midlands Oral History Archive, I planned an oral history project that would record people’s memories of the immediate post-war years in Leicester.

• Death’s Doings

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/24/deaths-doings/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 24, 2015 In spite of all the Hypochondriac’s attempts to keep sickness at bay, Death comes whizzing down the chimney in the form of a skeletal spider. The Hypochondriac’s cat remains unmoved.

• Trees in tropical logged forests release carbon at greater rate despite faster growth, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/carbon-trees

  University of Leicester-led research focusing on the carbon dioxide produced by tree stems shows that individual trees in tropical forests impacted by logging produce more carbon dioxide per m2 of woody stem area than those in unaffected forests

• Leicester to showcase humanities research at 2021 Being Human festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/being-human

  University of Leicester experts from disciplines as diverse as English literature, archaeology and criminology – and a whole lot more – have joined the programme for the UK’s largest national festival of the humanities.

• Mapping vanished Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/01/06/mapping-vanished-leicester/

  More than 1000 photographs of streets and individual buildings in Leicester demolished between 1955 to 1975, mainly as a result of the postwar slum clearance programme, but also in connection with other developments.