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Where is the best place to be a working woman?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/where-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-working-woman/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 To mark International Women’s day the Economist created a ‘glass-ceiling index’ which uses OECD data to rank factors including gender pay gaps and labour force participation.
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2012twit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/13/2012twit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2012 http://2012twit.com/ A project which aims to provide real time coverage of the USA 2012 elections from Twitter. It looks at trending topics and recent tweets.
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Learn to Communicate with Crisis-Affected Communities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/20/learn-to-communicate-with-crisis-affected-communities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 20, 2012 http://infoasaid.org/e-learning/course/start Infoasaid Launches E-Learning Course on Humanitarian Communication a new, free online learning course.
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New European collaborative platform to combat neurodegenerative diseases
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/epnd
Members of the European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases (EPND) have today (Tuesday) announced that they will embark on a venture to establish a collaborative platform for efficient sample and data sharing, leveraging and linking existing European research...
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Overseas Field Option
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gy3418
Module code: GY3418 At the heart of this module is a week-long field trip to Berlin. The focus of the module thinks about geopolitics at the urban scale and the ways in which Berlin (and Germany’s) geopolitical history continues to shape the geography of the city.
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Overseas Field Option
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/gy3418
Module code: GY3418 At the heart of this module is a week-long field trip to Berlin. The focus of the module thinks about geopolitics at the urban scale and the ways in which Berlin (and Germany’s) geopolitical history continues to shape the geography of the city.
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Overseas Field Option
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy3418
Module code: GY3418 At the heart of this module is a week-long field trip to Berlin. The focus of the module thinks about geopolitics at the urban scale and the ways in which Berlin (and Germany’s) geopolitical history continues to shape the geography of the city.
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Researchers create novel compound targeting melanoma cells
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/researchers-create-novel-compound-targeting-melanoma-cells
An international team of researchers, including a Professor from the University of Leicester, has developed a novel compound that successfully inhibits growth of melanoma cells by targeting specific epigenetic modifying proteins in these cells.
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Joe Orton: Leicester’s literary anarchist
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/literary-anarchist
Dr Emma Parker explores the cultural significance of literary anarchist and Leicester native Joe Orton, over a half a century since his death.
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National touring exhibition Lets Play Vinyl launches with public event celebrating UK sound systems
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/national-touring-exhibition-let2019s-play-vinyl-launches-with-public-event-celebrating-uk-sound-systems
A free public event entitled ‘Talking Sound Systems’ will be held at Attenborough Arts Centre to launch national touring exhibition Let’s Play Vinyl on Saturday 14 October from 1.00- 2.30 pm in the Princess Diana Hall.