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Un Americans: Ideological Dissent, Patriotic Subversion and Isolating the "Other" in the USA
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/un-americans
British Academy Research Development Award (£111,404) July 2009 - June 2012 Dr George Lewis When supporters of Sarah Palin decried Barack Obama as "un-American" during the 2008 presidential elections, they were drawing upon a history as old as the United States...
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Behind the Scenes at the 21st Century Museum
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2015/03/09/behind-the-scenes-at-the-21st-century-museum/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on March 9, 2015 The Museum of Liverpool © Ben Kirkpatrick You can now sign up for our MOOC (Massive Open Online Course): Behind the Scenes at the 21 st Century Museum , which will run for 6 weeks from 1 st June 2015.
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Synoptic Field Course (Alps)
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gl4005
Module code: GL4005 You will apply the skills gained on previous field trips to this two-week traverse of the Alpine orogeny. Through field observations, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the geological history of this large and complex mountain belt.
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Games Masters students to run video game tournament to be broadcast live
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/games-master2019s-students-to-run-video-game-tournament-to-be-broadcast-live
University of Leicester video gamers are to go head-to-head against local rivals De Montfort University in the first in a new series of derby eSports matches.
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Sami Zubaida
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sami-zubaida
We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.
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Clearing trip to see the University of Leicester changed Tom’s direction of study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/clearing-tom
When Tom Walters missed out on his first-choice university place, the next step should have seen him accept his reserve choice – until a visit to the University of Leicester during Clearing changed everything.
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Helping to scaffold students’ reading practices
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2019/09/18/helping-to-scaffold-students-reading-practices/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on September 18, 2019 This is a draft preview version of a resource currently in production.
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Remote Sensing of the Environment
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy2424
Module code: GY2424 In this module you'll learn how to obtain and work with earth observation imagery from satellite-based sensors. Various techniques for pre-processing and using remotely sensed data will be covered, with a focus on terrestrial ecosystems applications.
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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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A graduate’s perspective on innovations in learning and teaching
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/11/18/a-graduates-perspective-on-innovations-in-learning-and-teaching/
Posted by Tamara Jowhire in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on November 18, 2016 I am a recent Chemistry graduate from the University of Leicester, and I am currently working as an intern at the Leicester Learning Institute.