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English for Engineering Winter Programme
https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/short-courses/dli-winter-programmes/engineers
A short course to develop participants’ ability to communicate when using English in a chemistry context and to allow students to experience what is like to study chemistry in a British University.
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English for Maths Winter Programme
https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/short-courses/dli-winter-programmes/maths
Study on the English for Maths Summer Programme at the University of Leicester. Improve your ability to communicate in English in a maths context.
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My role: library adviser, Archives and Special Collections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/10/03/my-role-library-adviser-archives-and-special-collections/
Posted by Eleanor Bloomfield in Library and Learning Services on October 3, 2022 Hello – my name is Eleanor Bloomfield and I am the (relatively) new library adviser for Archives and Special Collections.
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In the Land of the Blind the One-eyed Man is King
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2020/05/07/in-the-land-of-the-blind-the-one-eyed-man-is-king/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on May 7, 2020 This morning I watched a Youtube Video (hey, aren’t I down with the kids ), about a researcher advocating the view that communications about the Covid-19 pandemic are being manipulated to force people...
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Lis-Bibliometrics Conference 2024: Exploring The Bibliometric Universe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/10/16/lis-bibliometrics-conference-2024-exploring-the-bibliometric-universe/
Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on October 16, 2024 Merinne Whitton, research metrics lead in the Research Services team, reports back from the recent Lis-Bibliometrics Conference.
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MA Museum Studies Placement Week 7-8
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/09/09/ma-museum-studies-placement-week-7-8/
Posted by can19 in Library Special Collections on September 9, 2022 My time now at the University of Leicester Archives and Special Collections has ended, and I am proud of what I have achieved.
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MA Museum Studies Placement Weeks 3-4
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/08/12/ma-museum-studies-placement-weeks-3-4/
Posted by can19 in Library Special Collections on August 12, 2022 Teddies in 3 Activity Sheet for Red Textbook 2 Cataloguing the Rose Griffiths Archive During week 3 I began to get deeper into the cataloguing process, and I also began to re-box all the material.
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Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2017/05/29/evelyn-waugh-reader-writer-collector/
An idiosyncratic reflection by Robert Murray Davis on a Waugh symposium held at the Huntington, Pasadena, over 5-6 May 2017.
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The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 2: What about ‘transferable skills’?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-2-what-about-transferable-skills/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 In the first part of this post, I discussed the need to develop more broad and inclusive understandings of knowledge and to move away from unhelpfully simplistic and...
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The Lord of Misrule and his band of ‘lusty guts’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/12/20/the-lord-of-misrule-and-his-band-of-lusty-guts/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on December 20, 2016 Behaving badly at the Christmas festivities and doing something you would really rather not remember is not an exclusively modern phenomenon, as a trawl through our Special Collections reveals –...