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Volunteer Vlad is honoured for giving his time to others
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/psychology-student-volunteer-vlad-honoured
A University of Leicester student has been recognised for his exceptional commitment to volunteering.
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Citizens of Change celebrate life-changing achievements online
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/graduation-celebration
IQiUjIbODDE|When starting their degrees at the University of Leicester, no student could have predicted that their 2020 graduation ceremony would have to be postponed because of a pandemic.
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Human intelligence just got less mysterious, according to Leicester University’s neuroscientists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/human-intelligence
Neuroscience experts from the University of Leicester have released research that breaks with the past fifty years of neuroscientific opinion, arguing that the way we store memories is key to making human intelligence superior to that of animals.
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Social Media and Sexism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/16/social-media-and-sexism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2014 This week a report published by Demos discussed the extent of misogyny on Twitter . You can read the full text on the website.
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Tool for humanitarian workers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/20/tool-for-humanitarian-workers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2021 Urban-Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (U-NEAT+) The United Nations launched a free online tool recently which is to help humanitarian aid workers rapidly identify and...
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Mexico Turns to Social Media for Information and Survival
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/30/mexico-turns-to-social-media-for-information-and-survival/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2011 Mexicans are using social media sites such as twitter and face book to exchange information about violence, areas to avoid. Key examples are Wikinarco – https://www.wikinarco.
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Meta-Activism Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/05/meta-activism-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2011 http://www.meta-activism.org/ The Meta-Activism Project (MAP) is a non-traditional think tank that uses digital networks to better understand their effects on social power.
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Curiosity Rover Reaches the Clay Unit in Gale Crater, Sol 2073
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2019/02/07/curiosity-rover-reaches-the-clay-unit-in-gale-crater-sol-2073/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 7, 2019 Looking towards the Clay Unit After 20.1 km and 2073 sols of driving and science operations we have reached the next milestone of the Mars Science Laboratory mission – the Clay Unit.
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Economics and Accounting BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/economics-and-accounting-bsc/2026
With an Economics and Accounting degree from Leicester’s School of Business, you’ll gain comprehensive knowledge of the key areas of economics and accounting.
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Organisational Behaviour
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mn7401
Module code: MN7401 The study of organisational behaviour provides an understanding of how and why people behave the way they do in organisations and what impact organisations have on people’s behaviour.