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Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp FBA, FSA
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/rosemary-cramp
The University was sad to learn of the recent death of its honorand, the distinguished archaeologist Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp. Pre-eminent in the study of the Anglo-Saxon period, Dame Rosemary was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century archaeology
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Leicester experts contribute to international consortium helping patients with rare disease diagnosis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/rare-diseases
Experts from the University of Leicester have co-coordinated a European consortium of 300 researchers to help patients with unsolved rare diseases receive a diagnosis through new genetic reanalysis
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Student profile: Tia
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/student-profiles/tia-esrc-midlands-grad
Tia is studying on the Human Geography Pathway with the ESRC Midlands Graduate School. Read more about her experiences of studying a PhD at Leicester.
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Political journalism expert explains miners’ strike significance on BBC show
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/miners-strike
A 35-year career in political journalism led to a University of Leicester academic being called on to explain the significance of the 1984-5 miners’ strike to BBC radio listeners.
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Researchers call for armchair astronomers to help find unknown hidden worlds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/zooniverse
Astronomers have launched a new online initiative, calling for volunteers to come forward and help to search for planets beyond our Solar System.
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Undergraduate courses
https://le.ac.uk/physics/study/undergraduate
Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester has one of the best staff-student ratios in the UK, a wide range of module choice, and the opportunity to be taught by academics who are passionately engaged in advancing their fields.
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Museums and social justice – and why I bang on about it quite a lot.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2018/04/12/museums-and-social-justice-and-why-i-bang-on-about-it-quite-a-lot/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 12, 2018 This week marked the 73 rd anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. Between 1937 and 1945, 280,000 people were imprisoned there.
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University of Leicester staff blogs School of English ‘Untouchable’ works to be investigated at Univ
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/16/untouchable-works-to-be-investigated-at-university-of-leicester-event/
School of English Centre for New Writing Untouchable Dalit Literature
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Keele University
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/12/06/keele-university/
A page describing the collections from Keele University that the UOSH Midlands Hub preserved.
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Useful Bloom taxonomy related websites/resources (and some critiques) – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2014/08/12/bloom/
The 'Learning Outcomes Project' at the University of Leicester. Useful Bloom taxonomy related websites/resources - and some criticisms.