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• New exhibition showcases vast range of scrapbook uses throughout history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/new-exhibition-showcases-vast-range-of-scrapbook-uses-throughout-history

  A new exhibition at our University demonstrates the vast range of uses for scrapbooks throughout the centuries – from capturing information to containing an assortment of colourful pictures.

• Media in the Age of Cybersurveillance

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/media-in-the-age-of-cybersurveillance/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 What is the nature, extent and impact of Internet surveillance on journalism?  This question is considered in a new report Watching the watchdogs just released by CIMA (Center for...

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/17/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• The Anthropocene Leicester scientists respond to criticisms of new geological epoch

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/the-anthropocene-leicester-scientists-respond-to-criticisms-of-new-geological-epoch

  A team of academics from our University has responded to criticisms of the proposal to formalise a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene.

• Natasha Callis: My week of work experience

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/06/30/natasha-callis-my-week-of-work-experience/

  Posted by Karin Li in Library and Learning Services on June 30, 2023 Guest post by Natasha Callis, work experience student. This week, I’ve been doing work experience at the University of Leicester Library.

• Curating and Marketing Inclusivity at Attenborough Arts Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement/curating-and-marketing-inclusivity-at-attenborough-arts-centre

  Attenborough Arts Centre Museum Studies

• History and Security Sector Reform: Crime and Punishment in British Colonial Guyana, 1814-1966

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/history-and-security-sector-reform

  Over the past two years there has been a general shift in models of incarceration in the former British colony of Guyana, from punishment (punitive measures) to correction and rehabilitation (via training and education).

• How can UK universities improve the teaching of quantitative research methods in the Social Sciences

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/how-can-uk-universities-improve-the-teaching-of-quantitative-research-methods-in-the-social-sciences/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 This is the topic of a major new report just published by the British Academy .  It calls for a greater emphasis upon developing skills more extensively and earlier in courses.

• Expert opinions cover Antarctic volcanoes referendums and the menopause

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/expert-opinions-cover-antarctic-volcanoes-and-a-tale-of-two-referendums

  Professor John Smellie from our School of Geography, Geology and the Environment has written an article for The Conversation discussing how the eruption of volcanoes situated strategically close to any of Antarctica’s ice streams could cause significant amounts of...

• The Lives of Others, Staff Blogs, University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/performingcitizenship/2015/03/26/the-lives-of-others/

  Posted by Maria Rovisco in Performing Citizenship on March 26, 2015 The Lives of Others – A commentary on Anthony Minghella’s Breaking and Entering (2006)   This is a short commentary that I have written for the workshop ‘Bordering Strangeness’ organized by Chris Rumford...