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Hanif Kureishi: the Assemblage of a Native Informant
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2015/03/06/hanif-kureishi-the-assemblage-of-a-native-informant/
Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on March 6, 2015 There are few writers alive in Britain today who can elicit such polarised, or at best highly qualified, responses as Hanif Kureishi (except, perhaps, his fellow writer and friend Salman Rushdie).
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Blog 3: Items of Interest. Guest post by Jenni Hunt.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/04/09/blog-3-items-of-interest-chosen-by-jenni-hunt/
Third blog of 3 by Jenni Hunt, temporary archive assistant, about the items she found most interesting during the listing work she has been doing.
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Educational policy and practice: how ‘evidence-based’ can or should it be?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/06/12/500/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 12, 2017 ‘On the research side, evidence-based education seems to favour a technocratic model in which it is assumed that the only relevant research questions are questions about...
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Don’t mention the War
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/01/18/dont-mention-the-war/
Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on January 18, 2017 Stephen Dunne, Lecturer in Social Theory and Consumption and the School, considers the strange role played by mottos in the marketing of Higher Education When the University of Leicester...
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ca270: Page 2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/author/christopher_allen/page/2/
The Invisible Religious Hate Crime: Shiaphobia Amid Ashura Commemorations Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on October 27, 2023 Michael Dhanoya – PGR Researcher Earlier this year around the 27-28 July crowds of Muslim men...
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Chinese Prisoners on Cockatoo Island, Sydney
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/06/21/chinese-prisoners-cockatoo-island/
Chinese prisoners and former gold-diggers who were imprisoned on Cockatoo Island in Sydney (New South Wales). Explores how they were disadvantaged within the colonial justice system and how they resisted imprisonment.
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Indexing the Press Cuttings Books
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/01/22/indexing-the-press-cuttings-books/
Posted by Helen Ward in Library Special Collections on January 22, 2018 Among the items held in the University of Leicester Institutional Archives are a series of Press Cuttings.
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The Carceral Archipelago conference – an early career perspective
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/09/28/the-carceral-archipelago-conference-an-early-career-perspective/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on September 28, 2015 By Jennie Jeppesen.
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‘Strangers in the land’?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/06/08/strangers-in-the-land/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 8, 2016 Our current exhibition, ‘”Strangers in the land”? Impressions of India’ traces the history of the British in India from the early 17 th century to the turn of the 20 th .
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Positive boost in National Student Survey cements top position for University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/national-student-survey-results-leicester
Leicester is celebrating a top 15 position among UK institutions overall for student satisfaction, according to Times analysis, with positivity rising in all 26 core questions of the survey.