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Kontakte and Other Stories
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/10/01/kontakte-and-other-stories/
Posted by Jonathan Taylor in School of English Blog on October 1, 2014 My short story collection, Kontakte and Other Stories , which was first published in July 2013, has now been republished by Roman Books in a new second edition.
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Donald Trump – Museums in the face of hate
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/01/30/donald-trump-museums-in-the-face-of-hate/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on January 30, 2017 A couple of weeks ago on Friday was one of the happiest days in our School calendar: Graduation Day.
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The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 1: forgetting what we know about knowledge.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-1-forgetting-what-we-know-about-knowledge/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 One of the many poorly-framed, point-missing ‘debates’ that regularly plague contemporary education goes something like this: ‘should education be focused primarily on...
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The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 2: What about ‘transferable skills’?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-2-what-about-transferable-skills/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 In the first part of this post, I discussed the need to develop more broad and inclusive understandings of knowledge and to move away from unhelpfully simplistic and...
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The mobile phone: a tool for sousveillance?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/mobile-phone
Read the article "The mobile phone: a tool for sousveillance?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Genetics for schools and colleges
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics/genetics-schools-colleges
Resources Resources a student filling in a form|Genomes and genomics The complete package of genetic information needed to make a living thing - in the form of all its DNA, genes and chromosomes - is known as a genome.
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Epigenetics and global health case study
https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics-and-ethics-and-law/epigenetics/case-studies/epigenetics-global-health
Epigenetics can help us understand global health trends, as epigenome is dynamic and frequently responds to environmental cues. For more information, take a look at our website.
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Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals amazing detail of early animal evolution
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/kylinxia-fossil-scanning
Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct ‘fossil monster’ that lived half a billion years ago, filling a gap in our understanding of the evolution of arthropods such as insects...
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University of Leicester helps bring justice after 30 years
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/28-university-of-leicester-helps-bring-justice-after-30-years
Double helix of DNA 2050|Reviving the original technology of DNA fingerprinting helps bring justice after 30 years to convict rapist DNA fingerprinting tests performed at the University of Leicester has this week helped to convict Benjamin Whitehead for a rape he committed...
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Exposure to air pollution in pregnancy and early life has important impacts on lung function in early childhood
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/27-pollution-during-pregnancy
New research by the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability (CESH) at the University of Leicester indicates that exposure to air pollution from road traffic as early as the first trimester of pregnancy and in early life is associated with small but significant...