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Wendy Hickling OBE, JP, DL (1936-2017)
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/inspirational-women/wendy-hickling
“In our rooms, with outstretched arms you could touch each wall. You were allowed five items on your dressing table and nothing on the radiator. If you contravened this rule your surplus items were confiscated and you had to pay to get them back.
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Postgraduate loans
https://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/fees-funding/postgraduate-loans
When applying for a Masters degree, you may be eligible to apply for a Postgraduate Loan to cover the costs of studying. These loans work in a similar way to Undergraduate Student Loans.
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Cheryl Davenport
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/people/business-advisory-board/cheryl-davenport
Cheryl has 34 years’ experience as a leader in the public sector, private sector, and in membership bodies in both the UK and USA.
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Pop singer honoured by University of Leicester for his museums heritage work
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/david
Pop vocalist, essayist and art historian, David McAlmont, has been honoured by University of Leicester during a ceremony today (Friday 19 July).
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A new union supports struggling artists in times of austerity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/26-a-new-union-supports-struggling-artists-in-times-of-austerity
Latest University of Leicester CAMEo Cuts edition exposes the dire working conditions of many artists and explains how Artists’ Union England, a new trade union for artists, campaigns for improvements
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Onlinecensorship.org
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/onlinecensorship-org/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Onlinecensorship.org Created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Global Gender Gap Report 2022
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/29/global-gender-gap-report-2022/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2022 Global Gender Gap Report 2022 | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) Get information on the trends from 2020. The report records that it will take another 132 years to close the gap.
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Systematic Review Search Strategies
https://le.ac.uk/library/research-support/systematic-reviews/search-strategies
Systematic review search strategies are often more complex than search strategies you may have used in the past. They can run to hundreds of lines long, depending on the research topic, as you will need to take into account all the synonyms and variant spellings for your topic.
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Events
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/leicestershire-villages/events
Browse information regarding full interviews with residents of Leicestershire villages regarding events such as Christmas fairs and the floods in Croft of 1932 and how they affected village life.
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New effects in ideal gases solve mathematical mystery
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/new-effects-in-ideal-gases-solve-mathematical-mystery
A Mathematician from our Department of Mathematics, Professor Alexander Gorban, along with a physicist from ETH Zürich, Ilya Karlin, have challenged traditional concepts of micro and macro worlds and demonstrated how ideal gas unexpectedly exhibits capillarity properties.