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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.
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Primer Design
https://le.ac.uk/mcb/facilities-and-technologies/protex/primer-design
Primer design for pLEICS vectors is very simple: Decide which vector family you want to use (see below) Copy the appropriate 5' vector homology region for forward and reverse primers Design the insert homology region according to your desired insert 15-25...
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Where is ‘The NHS’? Saving Public Health Care Depends on Challenging Our Popular Imagination
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/09/13/where-is-the-nhs-saving-public-health-care-depends-on-challenging-our-popular-imagination/
Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on September 13, 2018 In this post, Dr Oz Gore, Lecturer in Innovation, Technology and Operations in ULSB, discusses his research on the NHS and, in the wake of ‘its’ 70th birthday, the gap between how we...
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The weekend effect in hospitals: Why we need evidence to underpin policy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2016/09/16/the-weekend-effect/
Professor Julian Bion and Dr Carolyn Tarrant discuss the complex evidence behind the weekend effect and efforts to implement 7-Day Services, including results from the HiSLAC study, and emphasise the importance of using independent evidence to underpin healthcare policy.
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Convicts, Indigenous People and Labour
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/06/08/convicts-indigenous-people-labour/
Postgraduate Carceral Archipelago panel on "Convicts, Indigenous People and Labour"
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Charles Phythian-Adams
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/charles-phythian-adams
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Emeritus Professor Charles Phythian-Adams, former Head of the Department of English Local History (now the Centre for Regional and Local History), who passed away on 13 May 2025.
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Cartooning in South Africa: Jonathan Zapiro on the Post-Apartheid ‘Rainbow Nation’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/01/11/cartooning-south-africa-jonathan-zapiro-post-apartheid-rainbow-nation/
Political cartoonist Jonathan Zapiro (South Africa) is interviewed by Shout Out UK Young Writer Laura Brick.
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The Criminal Corpse and the Competing Claims of Justice and Anatomy. By Richard Ward
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/12/21/richard-ward-the-criminal-corpse-and-the-competing-claims-of-justice-and-anatomy/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on December 21, 2015 The later eighteenth century represents a particular moment when the competing claims of anatomy and criminal justice fought for supremacy over the criminal corpse.
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Alternative Models for Higher Education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/12/02/alternative-models-for-higher-education/
Posted by Marton Racz in School of Business Blog on December 2, 2015 An ongoing discussion of alternative models of Higher Education, as Marton Racz reports, is generating a series of proposals as to how universities might work along more cooperative lines.
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Pedagogy and the COVID-19 Pandemic; the Covid in Cartoons project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/01/11/pedagogy-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-the-covid-in-cartoons-project/
Presentation of the AHRC-funded Covid in Cartoons project, a collaboration between University of Leicester, Shout Out UK and Cartooning for Peace.