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Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/sdgs/decent-work-economic-growth
The eighth Sustainable Development Goal is to promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.
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Holocaust Memorial Day: The catalyst for change
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/holocaust-memorial-day
Thursday, 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day, a time to reflect on the past to safeguard the future. At Leicester, the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies plays a pivotal part in achieving this goal.
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Professor Mark Jobling's projects
https://le.ac.uk/ggb/study/research-degrees/phd-projects/jobling
Browse the PhD projects offered for supervision by Professor Mark Jobling in the Department of Genetics and Genome Biology at the University of Leicester.
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A Certain Glamour: Evelyn Waugh and Nostalgic Fashion – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/03/21/a-certain-glamour/
Evelyn Waugh's 'Let Us Return to the Nineties,' and a reading of nostalgic fashion from the 1890s to the 1990s
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Trees in tropical logged forests release carbon at greater rate despite faster growth, study finds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/carbon-trees
University of Leicester-led research focusing on the carbon dioxide produced by tree stems shows that individual trees in tropical forests impacted by logging produce more carbon dioxide per m2 of woody stem area than those in unaffected forests
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2021 news
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/news/2021
26 October 2021 Host Stress Signals Stimulate Pneumococcal Transition from Colonization to Dissemination into the Lungs Fayez Alghofaili, Hastyar Najmuldeen, Banaz O. Kareem, Bushra Shlla, Vitor E. Fernandes, Morten Danielsen, Julian M.
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Income and Equality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/21/income-and-equality/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 21, 2014 The Work Foundation Launch Low Pay Project The site offers online recent papers and low pay data. Also on this topic, The Office for National Statistics has long-term wage data.
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Leicester in Space: 1960-69
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/11/19/leicester-in-space-1960-69/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 19 November 2020 The University of Leicester has a long and distinguished record of involvement in space science.
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 714 April
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-7-14-april
Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans from the Centre for Medical Humanities has written an article for The Conversation exploring how it could be a good idea to discuss topics such as sex, rape and pornography in classrooms in order to properly educate young people about...
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Supporting student transition to higher education: what (not) to do
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2020/04/20/supporting-student-transition-to-higher-education-what-not-to-do/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on April 20, 2020 The LLI is working with Schools to devise and develop approaches supporting pre-entry students’ academic transition to university-level study.