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• Conference Report: Forced Labour, Confinement and Represssion: European, Imperial and Post-Colonial

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/02/09/conference-report-forced-labour-confinement-and-represssion-european-imperial-and-post-colonial-perspectives/

  Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on February 9, 2017   Two weeks ago, a joint workshop on ‘Forced labour, confinement and repression: European, Imperial and Post-Colonial Perspectives’ was hosted by The Carceral Archipelago project and The Stanley Burton...

• Person-Job Fit: Some Questions

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2017/02/14/person-job-fit-some-questions/

  Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on February 14, 2017 So the media appears to be full of stories about Donald J Trump these days, and how he has started in his new job.

• Hear from our PhD students

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/study/research-degrees/testimonials

  Hear from some of our research students as they discuss their experience studying and researching with us in Archaeology and Ancient History.

• The Irchester Field School

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/outreach/the-irchester-field-school

  The Irchester Field School Leicestershire

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

  https://le.ac.uk/english/research/research-projects/past-projects/queer-diasporas

  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.

• University fires up UK higher education with 'ignite'

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/ignite-launch

  The university that embraced distance learning in the UK more than 25 years ago has become one of the nation’s first to launch a fully flexible, dual learning approach to its courses from September, which will see students take more control over their approach to learning...

• Residentials

  https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/residentials

  Discover the summer schools offered by the University of Leicester

• Dennis Smith

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/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

  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.

• Launch of telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/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.