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New Centenary film celebrates Leicester research heroes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/century-change
The University of Leicester has premiered a new short film, celebrating 100 years of changing the world. Research experts from the University’s first Century feature in the film, produced to mark Leicester’s Centenary year.
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Cover letters
https://le.ac.uk/career-development-service/applications-and-cvs/cover-letters
Discover how to write a cover letter tailored to your experience and the role you are applying for.
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Brussels Street Lamp Museum
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2014/01/07/a-most-illuminating-museum/
A blog post from the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester about the Brussels Street Lamp Museum
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Activities and events
https://le.ac.uk/wordsworth-2020/events
Find out about past events and future events for the Wordsworth 2020 AHRC funded project for English research at Leicester.
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Alex George
https://le.ac.uk/centenary/events/alex-george
Dr Alex George, Youth Mental Health Ambassador and former competitor on the TV series Love Island, delivered a special presentation on mental health support to students as part of the series of 'Citizens in Residence' events organised to mark our centenary year.
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Governments more likely to be responsive when strong public opposition is voiced
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/governments-more-likely-to-be-responsive-when-strong-public-opposition-is-voiced
Governments often ignore public opposition to their policies but they are far less likely to do so when public opinion is strongly and consistently expressed through surveys and on the streets, says a University of Leicester Politics expert.
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Sporting Leicester students to represent Great Britain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/sporting-leicester-students-to-represent-great-britain
Not one but two Leicester students will be representing Great Britain in international sporting events this summer. The selected students are Ryan Hunt, currently in his second year in Interdisciplinary Science, and Kieran Slater from Physics & Astronomy.
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Tribute to architect behind iconic Engineering Building
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/tribute-to-architect-behind-iconic-engineering-building
The architect James Gowan, who co-designed the University of Leicester’s Engineering Building, has died aged 92. He formed a partnership with James Stirling in the 1950s the results of which included our Engineering Building, completed in 1963.
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Changes to the Doctoral College Reading Room
https://le.ac.uk/library/news/changes-to-the-doctoral-college-reading-room
The Library would like the views of PGR students on recent changes to the Doctoral College Reading Room.
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Waging war on cultural terrorism
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/cultural-terrorism
Professor David Mattingly explores the importance of protecting archaeological heritage sites from cultural terrorism, and the efforts being undertaken to preserve and record in the Middle East and North Africa.