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  • UK Disability History Month 2022: Uncovering the history of the Fielding Johnson Building

    Posted by Simon Dixon in Library and Learning Services on November 24, 2022 16 November to 16 December 2022 is UK Disability History Month , an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history of the rights and dignity of disabled people.

  • Queer Diasporas: Islam, Homosexuality and a Micropolitics of Dissent

    The Queer Diasporas project ran from September 2014 - August 2017. The study’s main aim was to challenge acerbic views on Muslim citizens by foregrounding their politically significant sexual dissidence.

  • Shahzad

    Learn more about Shahzad, one of our 'Citizens in the making' at Leicester.

  • Dennis Smith

    We have learned with sadness of the recent death of Professor Dennis Smith, who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1970s. Professor Smith passed away in February 2024.

  • Academic presents research on silence in Japans 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.

  • Launch of telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves

    A state-of-the-art telescope for detecting optical signatures of gravitational waves - built and operated by an international research collaboration, led by the Universities of Warwick and Monash - has been officially launched.

  • 12th May 2015 Sol 983

    Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 12, 2015 A stunning image of sunset over the Gale Crater Rim!  The sort of long wavelength scattering so characteristic of our Earth’s red sunsets has not occurred. Ehlers et al.

  • A Promising Future: Convict Voyages to Western Australia by Kellie Moss

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 6, 2014 During a recent research trip to the State Library of Western Australia I had the opportunity to examine the journal compiled by William Smith, Surgeon Superintendent, on board the Merchantman’s second...

  • Carceral Archipelago: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 6

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • Admin, Conference, and Website, Oh My!

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on April 22, 2015 In the year since I joined The Carceral Archipelago, it has been a pleasure to support the novel and extensive research being conducted by the project’s members.

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