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Only 7% of people describe themselves as feminists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/22/only-7-of-people-describe-themselves-as-feminists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2016 According to the results from the 2016 Fawcett society state of the nation report only 4% men and 9% women polled labelled themselves as feminists.
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Only 2% of children have the critical literacy skills they need to tell if a news story is real or f
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/22/only-2-of-children-have-the-critical-literacy-skills-they-need-to-tell-if-a-news-story-is-real-or-fake/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 22, 2018 According to the final report from the Commission on Fake News and the Teaching of Critical Literacy Skills which was established by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on...
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Expert opinions cover the shaming of expornstar Sunny Leone mechanical doping and how ethnic minority students are excelling in schools
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/expert-opinions-cover-the-shaming-of-pornstar-sunny-leone-and-how-ethnic-minority-students-are-excelling-in-schools
Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans from the Centre for Medical Humanities has written an article for Think: Leicester discussing the recent interview between Bhupendra Chaubey and ex-pornstar Sunny Leone, which was widely criticised on social media.
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Geology student presents on inspiring outreach work at international geological conference in Israel
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/geology-student-presents-on-inspiring-outreach-work-at-international-geological-conference-in-israel
Third year Geology Undergraduate Bea Baharier recently talked about her Holloway Trust funded outreach work and broader outreach in the Department of Geology in a talk titled “Challenging science through innocent curiosity” at the Israeli Geological Society annual conference,...
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Black Lives Matter
https://le.ac.uk/american-studies/about/black-lives-matter
Academics in the Centre for American Studies have put together a list of resources for anyone interested in learning more about the Black Lives Matter movement.
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World-first lobster X-ray telescope mirror delivered for SVOM
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/04/16/world-first-lobster-x-ray-telescope-mirror-delivered-for-svom/
World-first lobster X-ray telescope mirror delivered for SVOM
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PREPARDE
https://le.ac.uk/clcr/research-projects/preparde
Information on the PREPARDE (Peer Review for Publication & Accreditation of Research data in the Earth Sciences) project lead by The University of Leicester.
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Book Group: Unconditional Surrender
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/02/11/surrender/
Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on February 11, 2015 The Penguin edition of Unconditional Surrender In January, a small cohort of the Book Group met to discuss the last book in Waugh’s “Sword of Honour” trilogy: Unconditional Surrender , which appeared for the...
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Focus on synthetic biology in prize lecture at University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/focus-on-synthetic-biology-in-prize-lecture-at-university-of-leicester
The winner of the Institute of Physics Tom Duke Prize, Andrew Turberfield, a Professor of Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, is to deliver his prize lecture at the University of Leicester.
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How to prepare
https://le.ac.uk/graduation/prepare
Find out how to register for your graduation at the University of Leicester and what you need to do before the day.