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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...

• New scheme to broaden Leicester students’ international ambitions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/turing-scheme

  Leicester students will have the chance to broaden their horizons and enhance their studies with global opportunities through a new £110million UK Government scheme.

• Study finds higher-earning men would take a pay cut to spend more time with partners

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/study-finds-higher-earning-men-would-take-a-pay-cut-to-spend-more-time-with-partners

  Most men in Europe want to spend fewer hours at work and more time with their families even though it would cut their income, a major study on employment published in the journal Sociology shows.

• Leicester makes top 20 for UK global health research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicester-makes-top-20-for-uk-global-health-research

  Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) and Medsin-UK has launched the first UK University Global Health Research League Table in the Houses of Parliament - and the University of Leicester is included in the top 20 UK institutions.

• Triumphing in the face of adversity

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/triumphing-in-the-face-of-adversity

  Corinne’s time at the University of Leicester has, in great part, been shaped by her resilience. Beginning her degree in 2013, she faced a number of personal setbacks, but after five years of hard work and dedication, she graduates this week with her LLB.

• Ray Fairbend

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/ray-fairbend

  We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Ray Fairbend on 18 September 2024, aged 71.

• Leading human rights activist to speak on civil liberty and democratic freedom

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/leading-human-rights-activist-to-speak-on-civil-liberty-and-democratic-freedom

  Leading human rights activist Shami Chakrabarti CBE will be discussing civil liberty, the importance of democratic freedom and how to prevent future acts of terrorism at a free public lecture in the Peter Williams Lecture Theatre on Wednesday 11 February 2015...

• Greater empathy reduces problems with patient care

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/howick

  Greater levels of compassion from hospital and clinical staff can reduce persistent problems with patient care says a University expert in empathy

• The forgotten success of penal transportation reform in late Imperial Russia: the lowering of prison

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/08/the-forgotten-success-of-penal-transportation-reform-in-late-imperial-russia-the-lowering-of-prisoner-mortality-in-the-transfer-system-1885-1915/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 8, 2016 By Mikhail Nakonechny . The late Imperial Russian prison and exile system is almost unequivocally considered to be the traditional embodiment of brutality, institutional inhumanity and injustice.

• Physics and Astronomy Blog: Showcasing the cutting-edge research and diverse scientific community in

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/page/24/

  Showcasing the cutting-edge research and diverse scientific community in the School of Physics and Astronomy.