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Leicester's local lockdown: a blog from the Vice-Chancellor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/vc-on-local-lockdown
Leicester is the first city in the UK to be placed under local lockdown – a fact that has brought global attention upon us during the coronavirus crisis. I know this news has come as a blow to many.
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Plants and People
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar3087
Module code: AR3087 How can the study of plants help us understand people in the past? What are the primary methods used by archaeobotanists? How do you identify the primary types of macroplant remains from British and European archaeological sites? How do...
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£2m study - ethnicity and COVID-19 in healthcare workers
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/covid-uk-reach
UK-REACH will investigate data held by national healthcare organisations to understand what the risk of having, and dying from, COVID-19 is for ethnic minority healthcare works.
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Asteroid fragments narrow down timeframe for giant planets’ current orbits
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/giant-planet-instability
University of Leicester-led study suggests that the orbital instability of the giant planets happened between 60-100 million years after the beginning of the Solar System, with evidence found in meteorites linked to asteroid believed to be remains of a destroyed planetesimal
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Stem cells collected in late pregnancy herald advances in prenatal medicine
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/stem-cells
Pioneering approach, developed by researchers with key input from the University of Leicester, means human development can be observed in late pregnancy for the first time
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Hear from our PhD students
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/study/research-degrees/testimonials
Hear from some of our research students as they discuss their experience studying and researching with us in Archaeology and Ancient History.
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Disability History Month 2023
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/11/16/disability-month-2023/
Posted by Eleanor Bloomfield in Library and Learning Services on November 16, 2023 To mark UK Disability History Month , which falls between 16 th November and 16 th December, Archives and Special Collections are showcasing items from our holdings which shed light on these...
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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.
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Implementing Improvements in Organisational Performance
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mn7649
Module code: MN7649 Performance management’ describes the attempt to maximise the value employees create (CIPD 2022). This module aims to introduce the management of performance within organisations and areas for critical success.
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Teaching and Learning a Second Language
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ed7801
Module code: ED7801 This module aims to give you a solid grounding in theories of second language learning and language teaching, and how theories inform practice, including current debates in these fields.