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Study determines performance appraisal success depends on frequent feedback and good standard setting
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/study-determines-performance-appraisal-success-depends-on-frequent-feedback-and-good-standard-setting
Appraisal of employees often gets a bad press, but recent research suggests if it involves frequent feedback between the formal appraisal and good prior planning and communication of standards then it can be successful and appreciated by employees.
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https://le.ac.uk/library/search-collections/databases-az/n
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers The National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organisation.
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PhD guidance
https://le.ac.uk/politics/study/research-degrees/phd-guidance
The School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester welcomes initial inquiries regarding possible study for a PhD. Read our PhD Research Proposal Guidance Notes for more information.
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Building dynamic, inclusive and socially purposeful museums and archives
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/building-inclusive-museums
In collaboration with NCK, the Nordic–Baltic research and development centre based in Östersund, Sweden, RCMG offered a week-long course in October 2016 which explored how museums and archives can become more dynamic, inclusive and socially purposeful organisations.
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Research areas
https://le.ac.uk/research/gcrf/research-areas
Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and other Official Development Assistance (ODA)-funded projects are designed to improve the lives of people living in chronic economic disadvantage across the world.
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Will AI ever understand human emotions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/will-ai-ever-understand-human-emotions
Dr Leandro Minku from the Department of Informatics has written an article for The Conversation discussing the growing data and processing power of technology and how AI may be able to recognise emotions in the next few decades.
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Research suggests bowel cancer medication could help combat earlyonset Parkinsons disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/research-suggests-bowel-cancer-medication-could-help-combat-early-onset-parkinson2019s-disease
People with certain forms of early-onset Parkinson’s disease could potentially benefit from taking a medication used to treat certain forms of cancer, according to new research by Leicester scientists and funded by the Medical Research Council.
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Projects
https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/projects
The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain programme was driven by six linked projects incorporating some of the latest research in archaeology, genetics, history, linguistics, social psychology, and place-name studies.
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Mathematical Modelling Centre
https://le.ac.uk/aidam/mmc
The University of Leicester's Centre for Mathematical Modelling (MMC) gathered researchers in advanced modelling and simulation methods and was the predecessor to the Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Modelling (AIDAM) established in 2019.
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Spotlight on Leicesters highflying research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/spotlight-on-leicester2019s-high-flying-research
New environmental research from Leicester is featured in the latest Energy Research Accelerator communications. Funded by Innovate UK, the Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) is a Midlands Innovation initiative.