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Whats the difference between margin trading and gambling
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/whats-the-difference-between-margin-trading-and-gambling
Margin trading allows an individual to borrow money from a broker in order to take much larger positions in financial assets and therefore multiply the size of their gains and losses.
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The Interviewer becomes the Interviewed
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/03/25/the-interviewer-becomes-the-interviewed/
Posted by Benjamin Hopkins in School of Business Blog on March 25, 2015 Recently appointed Lecturer in Work and Employment, Benjamin Hopkins , ponders a little about how he has been represented in the popular media, and a lot about how research subjects are represented within...
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Crime and its Representation in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1834-2018
https://le.ac.uk/crime-representation-anglophone-caribbean
Bringing together participants from Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana, Barbados and the UK, the ‘Crime and its Representation in the Anglophone Caribbean’ project addresses the acute and complex problem of crime in Anglophone Caribbean societies from various disciplinary perspectives.
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Leicester criminologists working with Government to explore motivations behind acid attacks
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-criminologists-working-with-government-to-explore-motivations-behind-acid-attacks
Researchers from our Department of Criminology have launched a major research project, commissioned by the Home Office, into the motivations of offenders who carry and use acid in violent attacks.
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Playing Prometheus: some reflections from Australia
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/11/19/playing-prometheus-some-reflections-from-australia/
Blog on Australia Convict heritage sites and archives
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Invisible Hands, and the Market as Storytelling
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/10/23/invisible-hands-and-the-market-as-storytelling/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on October 23, 2017 Valerie Hamilton, co-author of Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England with Martin Parker from ULSB muses on the way in which Adam Smith and subsequent economists have used the famous metaphor of an...
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The library in the penal colony: Chekhov’s unsung gift to Sakhalin
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/06/07/the-library-in-the-penal-colony-chekhovs-unsung-gift-to-sakhalin/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on June 7, 2017 Chekhov’s contribution to the cultural landscape of the Sakhalin penal colony (1868-1905), the establishment of several school libraries containing more than 2,200 volumes for the island’s...
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The riots of summer 2011: Seminar organized by the Campaign for Social Science
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/04/the-riots-of-summer-2011-seminar-organized-by-the-campaign-for-social-science/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2011 http://www.socialsciencespace.
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Film screening and QA with Leverhulme Artist in Residence for International Womens Day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/film-screening-and-q-a-with-leverhulme-artist-in-residence-for-international-womens-day
As part of International Women’s Day at our University, Kajal Nisha Patel, Leverhulme Artist in Residence (2016), will be in conversation with Dr Melanie Kennedy from the University’s School of Media, Communication and Sociology.
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The best of both worlds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/the-best-of-both-worlds
Becky Lawton, PhD student in the University’s School of History, Politics and International Relations, has recently shared how working collaboratively with our University and the British Library has helped her to build new skills, and pursue the career she wants.