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The Criminal Corpse and the Competing Claims of Justice and Anatomy. By Richard Ward
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/12/21/richard-ward-the-criminal-corpse-and-the-competing-claims-of-justice-and-anatomy/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on December 21, 2015 The later eighteenth century represents a particular moment when the competing claims of anatomy and criminal justice fought for supremacy over the criminal corpse.
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/143/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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A Historical Long View of Posthumous Harm: Comparing organ snatching to body-snatching. By Floris To
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/05/16/organ-and-body-snatching/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on May 16, 2016 Improper Procurement and Retention Taking organs of dead children without parental permission at Alder Hey is a practice The Economist (2001) dubbed the ‘return of the body-snatchers’.
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German Beginners Fast Track (Level 1)
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/german/fast-track-level-1
Fast Track German course for beginners at Leicester University
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Korean Intermediate (Level 3)
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/korean/level-3
Intermediate Korean Course at Leicester University
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Early edition of Frankenstein in University archives gives rise to chilling story around its creation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/early-edition-of-frankenstein-in-university-archives-gives-rise-to-chilling-story-around-its-creation
A popular character during Halloween is the shambling mass of assorted body parts known as Frankenstein’s Monster from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein – a creature who has remained a harrowing vision of what can happen when people try and create unnatural life since its...
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A win-win for volunteering
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/a-win-win-for-volunteering
Philip Grierson, Human Rights and Global Ethics Postgraduate in our Department of Politics and International Relations, has been presented with not one but two prestigious awards; the Frank May Volunteer of the Year and the Vice Chancellor’s Student of the Year Award at the...
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City Council and University of Leicester support Leicester businesses in becoming more sustainable
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/18-sustainable-business-support
Businesses in Leicester are being offered a range of support to become more sustainable by Leicester City Council and the University of Leicester’s Innovation Hub.
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Refugee Week: schoolchildren from Leicester to send messages of hope to refugee camp
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/19-refugee-week-primary-school-messages-of-hope
Children from a Leicester school are to send messages of hope to a refugee camp in Greece. They will also create a storybook which will contain blank cards for children in the refugee camp to fill and send back - starting a dialogue between the children.
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More training required to ensure patients with Type 2 Diabetes benefit from glucose monitoring technology
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/diabetes-glucose-monitoring
New research shows that Type 2 diabetic patients benefit from continuous glucose monitoring technology (CGM) to improve their care but do not receive this due to lack of training