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• UK slips in gender equality rankings

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/uk-slips-in-gender-equality-rankings/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Released this week by the World Economic Forum.  The latest gender gap report which rates nations according to disparity between the sexes  in health, education and work.

• Demos Integration Hub

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/demos-integration-hub/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 Think-tank Demos has created a special mapping integration area   which is examining evidence of racial and ethnic integration/segregation in Britain today.

• University students and mental health

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/university-students-and-mental-health/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 UCAS has published a report, Starting the Conversation, which explores mental ill health in university applications.

• Malala

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/13/malala/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2015 R eleased this week, He Named me Mala , the inspirational documentary on the young Nobel prize winner See her historic speech to the United Nations on their YouTube channel also...

• University of Leicester named as one of the world’s most sustainable universities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/17-worlds-most-sustainable-university-ui-greenmetric

  UI GreenMetric World University Rankings 2018 places the University of Leicester 35th in the world and 9th in the UK for sustainability.

• Leicester Professor becomes British Cardiovascular Society President

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/british-cardiovascular-society

  Professor Andre Ng from the University of Leicester has officially taken over as President of the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) at its 2024 AGM in Manchester

• Universities and colleges receive 245 million to tackle sexual harassment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/universities-and-colleges-receive-ps2-45-million-to-tackle-sexual-harassment

  HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) has awarded grants to over 60 projects in universities – including University of Leicester - and colleges across the country which address concerns about sexual violence and harassment on campus.

• Athena SWAN

  https://le.ac.uk/health-sciences/about/athena-swan

  We are committed to providing an excellent working environment for its staff, and in November 2016 we were successful in achieving our second silver Athena SWAN award - acknowledging our commitment to promoting gender equality in the Department of Health Sciences at Leicester.

• Leicester experts to appear at National Space Academy Careers Conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/experts-national-space-academy-careers-conference

  Professor Emma Bunce, Director of the Institute for Space, Dr Francesca Faedi of the School of Business and Space Park Leicester Deputy Director Professor Nigel Bannister will attend

• Athena Swan in the College

  https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/athena-swan

  In April 2020, the College of Life Sciences were awarded a college-wide Silver Athena SWAN award, for commitment to promoting gender equality in the College.