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• Student life in the 1980s: what can we learn from Students’ Union handbooks?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/01/05/student-life-in-the-1980s-what-can-we-learn-from-students-union-handbooks/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on January 5, 2024 Guest post by Jess Pascal, student volunteer. Hello, my name is Jess Pascal and I have been volunteering in the archives for the last two months.

• Academic presents research on silence in Japans second language classrooms

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/academic-presents-research-on-silence-in-japan2019s-second-language-classrooms

  Dr Jim King from the School of Arts has recently presented research in London to an audience of Japan experts and educationalists into why Japanese students are often reluctant to speak in a second language in classes in Japan.

• University of Leicester presents at Gateway to China event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/university-of-leicester-presents-at-gateway-to-china-event

  Our University has played a key role in the “Gateway to China” a one-day event that was part of the last edition of the Leicester Business Festival.

• Leicester experts discuss Brexit in new programme

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-experts-discuss-brexit-in-new-programme

  With less than a month to go until the EU Referendum, European Union experts from across the university have been giving their views on whether Britain would be better in or out.

• Study suggests hippocampal neuron responses are associated with memory distinctions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/study-suggests-hippocampal-neuron-responses-are-associated-with-memory-distinctions

  The hippocampus is a small region of the brain that forms part of the limbic system and is primarily associated with memory and spatial navigation.

• Flood and Flow: Place-Names and the Changing Hydrology of River-Systems

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/flood-and-flow

  Flood and Flow is two-year interdisciplinary research project, funded by The Leverhulme Trust.

• New free online course provides PhD application support

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/new-free-online-course-provides-phd-application-support

  A free online course which provides support for potential postgraduate researchers is to be offered by our University and will begin on 4 September.

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• Awesome aurora device replicates Northern Lights phenomenon

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/awesome-aurora-device-replicates-northern-lights-phenomenon

  Leicester researchers will be creating Northern Lights for a studio audience using the University's Planeterrella during the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lecture on 30 December 2015. The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are the UK’s flagship science series.

• Research highlights incredible insects during National Insect Week

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/2018national-insect-week2019-creeps-up-on-us-once-more

  The feature, revisiting four occasions where insects played an instrumental role in University research, can be found here Insects, bugs, creepy-crawlies - there are some who say they are not always the cutest critters, but they can certainly be one of the most useful and...