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Alternative Models for Higher Education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/12/02/alternative-models-for-higher-education/
Posted by Marton Racz in School of Business Blog on December 2, 2015 An ongoing discussion of alternative models of Higher Education, as Marton Racz reports, is generating a series of proposals as to how universities might work along more cooperative lines.
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Research skills training – Spring 2025
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/01/17/research-skills-training-spring-2025/
Advertising the new training program for research students at the University of Leicester in Spring 2025.
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Rest in Pieces: The story of a hanged woman and her journey to becoming a museum object. By Ali Well
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/07/27/rest-in-pieces/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on July 27, 2016 When referring to “skeletons in the cupboard” we rarely expect these to be literally true, but in the case of Mary Ann Higgins and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, it is.
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Cartooning in South Africa: Jonathan Zapiro on the Post-Apartheid ‘Rainbow Nation’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/01/11/cartooning-south-africa-jonathan-zapiro-post-apartheid-rainbow-nation/
Political cartoonist Jonathan Zapiro (South Africa) is interviewed by Shout Out UK Young Writer Laura Brick.
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Lee Anderson’s Islamophobia 101: how the Conservatives dodge responsibility for the prejudice that i
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2024/03/07/lee-andersons-islamophobia-101-how-the-conservatives-dodge-responsibility-for-the-prejudice-that-is-rife-in-their-ranks/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on March 7, 2024 Chris Allen – Associate Professor This article was first published at The Conversation. To read, click here .
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A Price worth Paying? Short Term Economic Recovery and the Loss of a Generation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/02/05/a-price-worth-paying-short-term-economic-recovery-and-the-loss-of-a-generation/
Posted by Melanie Simms in School of Business Blog on February 5, 2014 Melanie Simms, Professor of Work and Employment at the School, highlights the under-reported blind-spot in the over-reported fact of an emergent economic recovery: today’s youth are unlikely to be...
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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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Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body (AWERB)
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/animal-welfare/awerb
The Division of Biomedical Services licence with the Home Office ensures that each breeding, supplying and user establishment has an Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body (AWERB) in place.
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Receiving your loan
https://le.ac.uk/policies/fees-funding/us-loans/receiving
Managing your money Your Cost of Attendance (COA) is calculated for one full academic year; 39 weeks for undergraduate students and 52 weeks for postgraduate Masters and PhD students.
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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...