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• Extraordinary project challenged perceptions of disability and attitudes towards difference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/extraordinary-project-challenged-perceptions-of-disability-and-attitudes-towards-difference

  An extraordinary project led by Leicester brought together 4 artists and 8 of the UK’s most renowned medical museums in a unique collaboration to question and challenge our attitudes towards difference with the aim of stimulating debate around the implications of a society...

• News

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/current-news

  Information about all of RCMG's current research projects and events can be found below.

• Rest in Pieces: The story of a hanged woman and her journey to becoming a museum object. By Ali Well

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/07/27/rest-in-pieces/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on July 27, 2016   When referring to “skeletons in the cupboard” we rarely expect these to be literally true, but in the case of Mary Ann Higgins and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, it is.

• People

  https://le.ac.uk/heritage-and-culture/people

  Staff in the School of Heritage and Culture, University of Leicester

• Our vision and values

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/about/values

  Museum Studies at Leicester is a place where researchers, practitioners and postgraduate students from around the world come together to think creatively and critically about museums, galleries and heritage; to explore and investigate, to experiment and create, to question...

• Cr/ia (Creative Research / Instituting Art) Training Series: Arts-Based Methodologies in Research

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/events/cria-training-series

  Free online event organised by School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.

• Alec Woodall: PhD reflections

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/graduate-profiles/alex-woodall

  It was with some trepidation but also much excitement that I embarked upon my PhD journey in the School of Museum Studies four years ago (having done Art Gallery Studies in 2004-5 after being a secondary school teacher).

• Reviewer guidelines

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/about/journals/museum-society/reviewer-guidelines

  Museum and Society is an interdisciplinary journal with a wide-ranging interest in issues associated with museums and other places of public culture concerned with collecting, exhibiting and display.

• University of Leicester building officially reopened as Kathleen Kenyon Building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/kathleen-kenyon-building-naming-ceremony

  The University of Leicester's home for the School of Archaeology and Ancient History and the School of Museum Studies has been named after Dame Kathleen Kenyon.

• MS 210, Ethiopic manuscript, leather slipcase

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/the-beast-in-me-guest-post-by-armand-de-filippo-museum-studies/dav-7/

  2. MS 210, Ethiopic manuscript, leather slipcase with typed labels