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Social Entrepreneurship
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/07/social-entrepreneurship/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 7, 2014 A new standard to measure social impact is now available from the EU.
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Graduation Gallery
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/graduation-gallery
Congratulations to all of the students who have graduated this week and to the distinguished leaders who received honorary degrees from the University.
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EarthSense partnership maps clean air cycle routes in Britains cities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/earthsense-partnership-maps-city-clean-air-cycle-routes-in-britains-cities
A project combining Ordnance Survey (OS) geospatial data with real-time air quality data from EarthSense Systems is set to highlight clean cycle routes in Britain’s cities. EarthSense Systems is a joint venture between aerial mapping company Bluesky and our University.
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The Nineteenth Century Series
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/research/19th-century-series
Co-edited by Associate Professor Julian North and Professor Joanne Shattock, both of the Victorian Studies Centre, the Nineteenth Century Series aims to develop new approaches in scholarship and criticism on 19th-century literature and culture.
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Bloomberg: Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance/Corporate Social Reponsibility
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/17/bloomberg-environmental-social-and-corporate-governancecorporate-social-reponsibility/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2013 ESG (or CSR) has been topical over the last five years.
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Financial Models and Society: Villains or Scapegoats?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/10/24/financial-models-and-society-villains-or-scapegoats/
Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on October 24, 2018 In this post Dr Ekaterina Svetlova, Associate Professor in Finance and Accounting in ULSB, discusses her new book assessing the influence of financial models on markets and society.
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Where is the world’s happiest country?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report . It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.
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Leicester type 2 diabetes programme significantly improves health outcomes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/leicester-type-2-diabetes-programme-2018significantly2019-improves-health-outcomes
People who take part in a type 2 diabetes education programme developed in Leicester say it makes them feel “empowered” to manage their condition better.
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Exploring Disabled Joy: Attenborough Arts Centre presents Traces
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/attenborough-arts-traces
Read more about Attenborough Arts' latest exhibition, Traces
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The spacecraft that came before Juno
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/09/12/the-spacecraft-that-came-before-juno/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on September 12, 2016 The Juno spacecraft is not the first to visit Jupiter – this honour goes to the Pioneer 10 spacecraft back in December of 1973.