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Educational policy and practice: how ‘evidence-based’ can or should it be?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/06/12/500/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 12, 2017 ‘On the research side, evidence-based education seems to favour a technocratic model in which it is assumed that the only relevant research questions are questions about...
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Chicxulub crater Leicester researchers investigate what killed the dinosaurs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/chicxulub-crater
A team of scientists, including University of Leicester researchers, has now reached the midpoint of an International Ocean Discovery Programme investigating the Chicxulub crater site - the location of the meteorite impact associated with a mass extinction event 66 million...
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Understanding teenage angst
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/understanding-teenage-angst
The way teenagers think is going to come under scrutiny at a lecture that is open to the public on Monday 30 April.
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L@L 20th Anniversary Celebration of Languages and Cultures
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/events/20th-anniversary-celebration
Languages at Leicester aims to encourage language learning across Europe by hosting a European day of languages annually. Find out more.
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Deborah Sawday
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2021/deborah-sawday
Deborah Mary Anne Sawday 11th July 1944 to 19th October 2021 University of Leicester Archaeological Services are sad to announce the death of Deborah Sawday on Tuesday 19th October, at the age of 77, after a long illness.
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Is a product really worth what someone will pay for it?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2017/08/23/is-a-product-really-worth-what-someone-will-pay-for-it/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on August 23, 2017 I recently had reason to compare the work of people at opposite ends of the work-related pay scales that our society has developed.
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Writing yourself into the archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/06/05/writing-yourself-into-the-archives/
Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2020 Seeing other institutions’ reactions to the coronavirus pandemic has encouraged the Archives & Special Collections team to think about what we can do to collect Leicester’s responses to it, both official and...
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Rebecca Moore
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/author/rlm19/
PhD student working on the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project
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Introduction to Plant identification,
https://le.ac.uk/botanic-garden/adult-courses-and-workshops/plant-identification
The Plant identification course is aimed at anyone keen to develop their plant identification skills.
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Astronomers look ahead to first light from JWST
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/jwst-time-allocation
• Professor Nial Tanvir and Dr Rhaana Starling are co-investigators (co-Is) of a programme which will use spectroscopy to map the distribution of elements formed by gamma-ray bursts.