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• Two Silver Athena SWAN awards announced for Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/two-silver-athena-swan-awards-announced-for-leicester

  We are delighted to announce the success of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and the Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation who have both achieved an Athena SWAN silver award.

• Centre for Hate Studies secures record grant for student harassment research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/hate-studies

  A major study that will examine harassment against university students in England has secured a record amount of funding for the University of Leicester’s College of Social Science, Arts and Humanities.

• Two new volcanic ‘super-eruptions’ discovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/yellowstone

  A new study published in Geology by Leicester academics has highlighted the discovery of two new super-eruptions originating from the Yellowstone hotspot track, including what they believe was the volcanic province’s largest and most cataclysmic event.

• How much time do students spend studying?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/01/how-much-time-do-students-spend-studying/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 1, 2019 The 2019 engagement survey by AdvanceHE records a decline since 2016 in the proportion of students spending 11 hours or more per week in taught classes and/or independent learning;...

• Life expectancy of poor women is decreasing

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/life-expectancy-of-poor-women-is-decreasing/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 Shocking news this week from the Marmot review update which examined health equity in England.

• Older dissertations

  https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/study/postgraduate/dissertations-and-theses/older-dissertations

  2010 BOWEN, J. A landscape of improvement: the impact of James Loch, chief agent to the Marquis of Stafford on the Lilleshall estate, Shropshire, 1720-1820. DAVIDSON, E. The evolution and secularisation of the funeral in Leicester and Leicestershire, 1830-2010.

• Legacies of a British penal colony: adivasis in the Andaman Islands

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/12/08/legacies-of-a-british-penal-colony-adivasis-in-the-andaman-islands/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on December 8, 2014 It is an unexpected pleasure to be back in the Andaman Islands for the first time in almost two years.

• Projects and reports

  https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/uliihe/projects-and-reports

  Projects and reports for The University of Leicester Institute for Inclusivity in Higher Education (ULIIHE)

• Country House Technology

  https://le.ac.uk/country-house-technology

  The owners of country houses, together with the vast armies of staff they employed, formed the background of rural society in Britain until at least 1914.

• Management and Labour

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/lm1521

  Module code: LM1521 Module Outline This module addresses the questions 'how do we know what different occupations are worth?', 'What is meant by the labour market?', 'Why do workers need to be managed?', before tackling them by introducing key...