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• Global Environmental Change

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy3355

  Module code: GY3355 Module outline  Global changes in the physical geography of the planet are leading to increasingly visible environmental, economic and social effects.

• Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy3432

  Module code: GY3432 "Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources." So said the then-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2012.

• Leicesters literary festival gives a glimpse into our possible futures

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester2019s-free-literary-festival-gives-a-glimpse-into-our-possible-futures

  This year’s Literary Leicester plans to take audiences where no-one has gone before – but might do, one day.

• 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.

• Leader of most powerful observatory on the planet to speak at George Fraser Memorial Lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leader-of-2018most-powerful-observatory-on-the-planet2019-to-speak-at-university-of-leicester

  The head of the world’s most powerful observatory will conduct a lecture at our University, examining how new astronomical facilities have led to significant leaps in astronomical research.

• University of Leicester Boat Club to compete in Leicester Regatta 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/university-of-leicester-boat-club-to-compete-in-leicester-regatta-2015

  Anticipation for the upcoming Leicester Regatta 2015 is heightened by the University Boat Race, an annual event that sees the University of Leicester Boat Club and De Montfort University Rowing Club going head-to-head at 12.30pm on Sunday 26 April.

• Colonial Countryside project featured on A Place in the Country

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-country-houses

  Children gathered around Beckford table Children gathered around Beckford table|ITV programme explores research into connections between English country houses, Africa, the Caribbean and East India Company.

• Anti Social Finance*

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/02/11/anti-social-finance/

  Posted by dharvie in School of Business Blog on February 11, 2015 Senior Lecturer in Finance and Political Economy, David Harvie , suggests the UK’s nascent social investment market is more a matter of imposing market discipline and less a matter of ‘doing well by doing good’.

• Memorial Page

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mark-pluciennik-memorial/2016/05/18/memorial-page/

  Posted by in Memorial Page for Mark Pluciennik on May 18, 2016 Mark Pluciennik died on 7 May at the age of 62, following a battle with a progressive neurological condition.

• The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 2: What about ‘transferable skills’?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-2-what-about-transferable-skills/

  Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 In the first part of this post, I discussed the need to develop more broad and inclusive understandings of knowledge and to move away from unhelpfully simplistic and...