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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.

• Training links

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/how-to-do-oral-history/training/training-links

  The East Midlands Oral History Archive have put together a number of links from around the web, which can provide extra training on recording and other aspects of oral history.

• Rutland Roman villa: how we found one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/rutland-roman

  The discovery of a previously unknown Roman villa in rural Rutland during the 2020 lockdown was one of the archaeological stories of the year. Villas are emblematic features of the Roman countryside, and many are known across Britain. But this new discovery is unique.

• Physics and Astronomy June 2021 Digest

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/07/01/physics-and-astronomy-june-2021-digest/

  With exams now behind us, and hopefully a pleasant summer ahead, the Physics Community Team want to share some of the recent highlights from the news blog in May and June 2021.

• Postgraduate Researcher Careers: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 5

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/page/5/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Star Wars 50 Years: Pasts, Presents, and Futures

  https://le.ac.uk/media/research/star-wars-50-years

  Join the Star Wars 50 Years academic conference in Leicester (May 2027). Submit papers on film, fandom, media, and culture by 1 November 2026.

• Turned off at Execution Dock: Thames Scenery in the City of the Gallows. By Richard Ward

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/04/25/turned-off-at-execution-dock-thames-scenery-in-the-city-of-the-gallows-by-richard-ward/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on April 25, 2016   Eighteenth-century London has, with good reason, been called “the city of the gallows”.

• Leicester space scientists celebrate milestone moment for James Webb Space Telescope

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/miri-cooldown

  Dr Henrik Melin is the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) James Webb Fellow at the University of Leicester.

• Leicester unveils new £24m renovated Students’ Union

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/percy-gee-launch

  The newly renovated £24m Percy Gee building – home to the University of Leicester’s Students’ Union – was officially unveiled at a ceremony on Tuesday.

• Scientists pour cold water on claim British rivers are ‘cleanest since Industrial Revolution’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/river-water-quality

  Scientists and charities have poured cold water on recent claims that water quality in British rivers is “better than at any time since the end of the Industrial Revolution”.