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University researchers show juices from damaged salad leaves massively stimulate Salmonella growth and salad leaf colonisation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/university-researchers-show-juices-from-damaged-salad-leaves-massively-stimulate-salmonella-growth-and-salad-leaf-colonisation
Investigations by Leicester microbiologists have revealed that just a small amount of damage to salad leaves can massively stimulate the presence of the food poisoning bug Salmonella in ready-prepared salad leaves.
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The Carceral Archipelago Conference, Leicester 13-16 September 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/09/21/the-carceral-archipelago-conference-leicester-13-16-september-2015/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on September 21, 2015 The Carceral Archipelago conference , held in Leicester from 13 to 16 September 2015, felt just like reading over thirty outstanding monographs in two-and-a-half days, getting to know their authors...
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Christian De Vito
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/author/cdv8/
I am research associate on the Carceral Archipelago project, focusing on convict circulation in the late-colonial and post-colonial Latin America. And I am honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).
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Legacies of a British penal colony: adivasis in the Andaman Islands
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/12/08/legacies-of-a-british-penal-colony-adivasis-in-the-andaman-islands/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on December 8, 2014 It is an unexpected pleasure to be back in the Andaman Islands for the first time in almost two years.
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The politics of comparison: writing a global history of punishment
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/02/05/the-politics-of-comparison-writing-a-global-history-of-punishment/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on February 5, 2015 The Carceral Archipelago project faces enormous challenges in writing the history of punishment as global history.
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The Great Escape
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/04/19/the-great-escape/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on April 19, 2016 Peter A. Kropotkin, 1842-1921 Peter Kropotkin is remembered today as a brilliant Russian social revolutionary, geographer, scientist, and anarchist writer.
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“Of Ainu Women and Russian Prisoners: Listening for the Voice of the Other” University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/04/30/of-ainu-women-and-russian-prisoners-listening-for-the-voice-of-the-other/
Sakhalin, Bronislaw Pilsudski, political exile, Chufsamma, Ainu, indigenous tribes, prisoners, Ket, Fridtjof Nansen, Russian colonization, University of Leicester
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Scientists and engineers complete testing for space technology for the next decade
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/scientists-and-engineers-complete-testing-for-space-technology-for-the-next-decade
A UK team - including scientists from the University – has returned from a series of rigorous tests carried out on instrumentation for the premier space observatory of the next decade.
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Loot
https://le.ac.uk/joe-orton/plays/loot
Learn more about the ways in which we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Loot by Joe Orton, for the Joe Orton: 50 Years On project.
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Pioneering centre receives £4 million boost
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/phage-donation
A pioneering centre at the University of Leicester which studies bacteriophages to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria has received a major boost thanks to a £4 million donation.