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24th May 2013 Sol 284
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/05/24/24th-may-2013-sol-284/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on May 24, 2013 One of the things we tend to forget about, because it is working quietly in the background, is the communications network.
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Rugby star’s inspirational journey from training ground catastrophe sees him honoured by the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/matt-hampson
A former Leicester Tigers rugby player who was paralysed in an England U21 training session has been honoured by the University of Leicester for helping others who have suffered similar catastrophic injuries through sport.
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Leicester expert leads fight to cut India’s annual toll of 50,000 snakebite deaths
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/india-snakes
A University of Leicester academic is using her expertise to help India cut the number of fatalities from snake-bites.
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Juno’s first observations of Jupiter are revealing a giant world that is defying our expectations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2017/05/26/junos-first-observations-of-jupiter-are-revealing-a-giant-world-that-is-defying-our-expectations/
University of Leicester, Staff Blogs
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Sponsored sleep-out to support Leicester’s homeless
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/14-big-sleep-2019
University of Leicester staff and students will participate in ‘The Big Sleep’ on Thursday 21 March 2019.
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Norwich Women’s Film Weekend: online archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/01/27/norwich-womens-film-weekend-online-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2023 The Norwich Women’s Film Weekend (or NWFW) was a two-day annual event created by Cinewomen that ran for 10 years, from 1979 to 1989, at Cinema City in Norwich.
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Women’s history month: Europeana online exhibitions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/womens-history-month-europeana-online-exhibitions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 Europeana online exhibitions and blogs covering women’s history themes. The essays feature images of material items from Europe’s national libraries.
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Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Knowledge Hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/22/womens-resilience-to-disasters-wrd-knowledge-hub/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2022 Launched by UN Women in partnership with the Australian Governmen t this new site aims to spotlight research and resources relating to gender-responsive disaster risk...
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Internationally renowned novelist joins Leicester’s top academics to discuss why climate change has been banished from fiction books
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/dr-amitav-ghosh
Distinguished author and Booker prize nominee, Dr Amitav Ghosh, will join top scientists and a world-leading historian to explore how the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences have shaped, and can shape, our thinking about the climate emergency.
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With Tommy Hilfiger’s ‘smart’ clothing range, data collection has reached dystopian levels
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/07/31/with-tommy-hilfigers-smart-clothing-range-data-collection-has-reached-dystopian-levels/
Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on July 31, 2018 In an article for The Independent, Dr Phoebe Moore discusses how ambassadors will be rewarded for walking past Tommy Jeans stores and how we are becoming a resource for surveillance and profit making The...