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• Childrens purchasing behaviour significantly impacted by social media and mobile apps research shows

  Date: 6 Jul 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/children2019s-purchasing-behaviour-2018significantly-impacted2019-by-social-media-and-mobile-apps-research-shows

  Exposure to prompts to make in-app purchases in mobile games has a significant impact on children’s purchasing behaviour, according to a recent...

• The Bulletin University of Leicester establishes new research institutes

  Date: 5 Jul 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/the-bulletin-2013-university-of-leicester-establishes-new-research-institutes

  In this episode of The Bulletin from the University of Leicester News Centre: Hear about the four new research institutes announced by the...

• Expert opinions cover Brexit Michael Gove Victorian dismemberment football and US nuclear command

  Date: 1 Jul 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-opinions-cover-brexit-michael-gove-and-victorian-dismemberment

  Professor Panicos Demetriades from the Department of Economics has written an article for Think: Leicester giving his initial reaction to the...

• Survey investigates freelance creative practitioners and austerity

  Date: 30 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/survey-investigates-freelance-creative-practitioners-and-austerity

  Arts organisations are adapting to austerity measures but the challenges of freelance arts and cultural workers have been overlooked despite...

• Leicester announces four new research institutes to drive global research excellence

  Date: 29 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leicester-announces-four-new-research-institutes

  Our University has announced it is establishing four new research institutes.

• Expert opinions cover slum tourism the BBC and Brexit

  Date: 27 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/expert-opinions-cover-slum-tourism-the-bbc-and-brexit

  Professor Peter Lunt has written an article discussing how Ofcom may soon regulate the BBC - yet we know it already struggles to treat the public...

• New videos help mark 50th anniversary of Department of Media and Communication

  Date: 23 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/new-videos-help-mark-50th-anniversary-of-department-of-media-and-communication

  2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the University's Centre for Mass Communication Research – the first Centre of its kind studying mass...

• Expert opinions cover Brexit football hooliganism and the aging process

  Date: 20 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/expert-opinions-cover

  Professor Clare Anderson from the School of History has written an article discussing some of the positive benefits of EU membership and how it is...

• Academics and Leicester sports coaches team up in ERASMUS research project on ethics code for grassroots sport across Europe

  Date: 14 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/academics-and-leicester-sports-coaches-team-up-in-erasmus-research-project-on-ethics-code-for-grassroots-sport-across-europe

  Leicester City Football Club led the way in professional football excellence in England in 2016, but now the public focus has shifted once more to...

• Research initiative to explore how media can help romance blossom in post-disaster environments

  Date: 13 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/research-initiative-to-explore-how-media-can-help-romance-blossom-in-post-disaster-environments

  Media Cultures, a new research initiative that explores the role of the media in our shared cultural lives, will hold its official launch at a...