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Powerful partnerships for a better future
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/powerful-partnerships-for-a-better-future
A ‘town and gown’ meeting for academics and local people to work together to build a better future for Leicester is being held at our University. Leicester Matters brings together the local community and the University of Leicester to identify ideas for future cooperation.
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Making Mental Health services a right not a privilege
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/making-mental-health-services-a-right-not-a-privilege
A conference held at our University will see academics from around the world coming together to examine how mental health training can be globalised in the most effective way.
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Expert opinions cover Brexit Zimbabwe Catalan and Euroscepticism
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/expert-opinions-cover-brexit-zimbabwe-catalan-and-euroscepticism
Professor Adam Cygan from our School of History, Politics and International Relations has written an article discussing how the County was divided over the question of Brexit and what the future may hold.
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NASAs WISE finds universes most luminous galaxy to date
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/nasas-wise-finds-universes-most-luminous-galaxy-to-date
A remote galaxy shining brightly with infrared light equal to more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
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Could female traders reduce market crashes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/could-female-traders-reduce-market-crashes
Researchers in the Department of Economics at the University of Leicester have shown that increasing the proportion of female traders makes the market more volatile, but at the same time can reduce the occurrence of the most extreme crashes.
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2013
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/events/past-events/2013
Find summaries of all the events held by the Centre for New Writing in 2013.
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Temporary Trade Barriers Database (World Bank) updated
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/temporary-trade-barriers-database-world-bank-updated/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 This database collects information on the use of temporary trade barriers by 30 countries from the 1980s- 2024. Includes information and downloadable files on anti-dumping measures.
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Talking Europe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/31/talking-europe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2019 A pan-European project , with independent funders such as VoxPop , which aims to engage citizens in online discussions about politics by using an algorithm to match them with someone from...
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Amplifying women’s voices: A Gender Balance Guide For Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/05/26/amplifying-womens-voices-a-gender-balance-guide-for-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2020 A useful guide from WAN-IFRA and Women in the news It aims to educate news rooms on gender stereotypes in the media and how to avoid them.
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#WomanInHistory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/womaninhistory/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 Launched by author Kate Mosse as a a global campaign to nominate important women from any period of history who have made a major contribution but may now be less well known.