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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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UK and Chinese universities join forces to offer clinical and healthcare courses in China
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/china
Two universities have strengthened their links by launching the first Joint Education Institute (JEI) in central and western China to offer both British and Chinese degrees with a strong clinical focus.
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Racism in British Universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/racism-in-british-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The UCU union has just released a survey of its BME members in which shockingly 90% of those who answered reported that they had faced barriers to promotion and over 70%...
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South African Governmental Publications collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/18/south-african-governmental-publications-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2023 South African Governmental Publications collection is now available on the LSE Digital Library . It contains government and colonial publications.
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What are children worried about?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/what-are-children-worried-about/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 The latest annual Good Childhood report from the Children’s Society measures children’s subject well-being and happiness.
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Monitoring and Impact Assessment of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/11/monitoring-and-impact-assessment-of-unilateral-coercive-measures-on-the-enjoyment-of-human-rights/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2024 A UN online Tool to monitor the negative impact of sanctions imposed on a country on human rights i that country.
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Wider determinants of Health Tool launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/10/wider-determinants-of-health-tool-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2017 A great new tool for Public Health England which uses official data to explore the social and economic and environmental factors which impact on the health of the English population.