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Economics of the Oscars
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/13/economics-of-the-oscars/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2018 As the winners of the Academy awards 2018 have been announced, here are some social science sites for locating materials on the economics of the Oscars.
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Hotspots and minisatellites
https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/hotspots-and-minisatellites
Instrumental to Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys' refining of the genetic fingerprinting technique were hotspots of activity and minisatellites.
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Surveillance and Power – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/10/21/the-protection-of-knowledge-as-the-production-of-ignorance/
Posted by Tomasz Wisniewski in School of Business Blog on October 21, 2014 Geoff Lightfoot and Tomasz Wisniewski, Senior Lecturers in the School’s Finance and Accounting Group, describe information asymmetry as a politically prevalent predicament about which we should all be...
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Completed PHDs 2010-2019
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/research-degrees/completed-phd/2010-2019
2019 Peter Annhernu - The assembly of museum media: Tracing the adoption of novel forms and formats of communications technology into museum media production.
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Evading a flogging by the Whipping Toms
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/02/27/evading-a-flogging-by-the-whipping-toms/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on February 27, 2017 Prior to 1846, Leicester had its own very particular way of celebrating Shrove Tuesday, which precedes the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday and was therefore the occasion for an outburst of eating,...
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How do we put the ‘Public Health’ into Violence Reduction?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2023/09/28/how-do-we-put-the-public-health-into-violence-reduction/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on September 28, 2023 Matt Hopkins – Associate Professor and Violence Hub Lead, Centre for Hate Studies Public health approaches to violence reduction are very much in vogue.
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The Evolution of Critical Management Studies?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/08/13/the-evolution-of-critical-management-studies/
Posted by Marton Racz in School of Business Blog on August 13, 2014 Marton Racz and Thomas Swann, Graduate Teaching Assistants at the School, explain why they are organising a PhD conference on Critical Management Studies (CMS) It is just over three years since Martin Parker...
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Alan Buchan
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/alan-buchan
The University has learned, with sadness, of the death of Professor Alan Robson Buchan MD DPH FFPH, Emeritus Professor of Community Medicine, who passed away on New Year's Day.
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Penny Bloods on display in the Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/05/09/penny-bloods-on-display-in-the-library/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 9, 2014 Penny Bloods, popular from the 1840s to the 1860s, were so named because of their preoccupation with the gory and sensational.
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Business Information Systems
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/co7518
Module code: CO7518 Financial services companies form one of the two largest IT consumer sectors worldwide. The IT systems in such companies are critical not only for the continuous operation of the business, but also as transformation and differentiation enablers.