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  • The sting of the bling

    https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/sustainable-metal-extraction

    Experts Professor Gawen Jenkin and Dr Dan Smith explain the importance of pursuing sustainable methods of metal extraction in order to tackle climate change.

  • FGM

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/13/fgm/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 Last week the UK’s first prosecution for female genital mutilation (FGM) failed amid controversy.  A cademics discuss whether the case should have been bought at all.

  • Social Entrepreneurs podcast

    https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/growth-accelerator-for-social-entrepreneurs/social-entrepreneurs-podcast

    Welcome to 'Social Entrepreneurs' Every day can bring new challenges to social enterprises alongside opportunities for innovation, growth, and creating lasting  impact.

  • Making learning outcomes work for social responsibility and not neoliberalism – University of Leices

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2014/03/14/socialresp/

    The 'Learning Outcomes Project' at the University of Leicester. Making learning outcomes work for social responsibility and not neoliberalism.

  • Tobias Gould

    https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/entrepreneurs-in-residence/tobias-gould

    Tobias is a social entrepreneur and business leader, founder of jerrybottle.com, and co-author of the Government’s flagship ‘Help to Grow’ programme delivered by 50 universities across the UK.

  • Research shows global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/research-shows-global-warming-disaster-could-suffocate-life-on-planet-earth

    Falling oxygen levels caused by global warming could be a greater threat to the survival of life on planet Earth than flooding, according to research led by Professor Sergei Petrovskii from the Department of Mathematics.

  • Report explores the value we place in arts and culture

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/report-explores-the-value-we-place-in-arts-and-culture

    Professor Mark Banks (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has written a report for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Cultural Value Project – a two-year project exploring how we think about the value of arts and culture to individuals...

  • Climate change

    https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/climate-change

    Reducing our environmental negative impact Avoid 100 Increasing our positive impact and offsetting Mitigate 200 Readying our campus for a changing world Adapt 250 Teaching and innovating for a better world Positive Impact 300 Climate Change Strategy (PDF, 463kb) Climate...

  • DNA and family history explored in public lecture

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/dna-and-family-history-explored-in-public-lecture

    The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society will host a lecture on the relationship between surnames and the paternally-inherited Y chromosome from Professor Mark Jobling on Monday 6 March.

  • Exposure to air pollution in pregnancy and early life has important impacts on lung function in early childhood

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/27-pollution-during-pregnancy

    New research by the Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability (CESH) at the University of Leicester indicates that exposure to air pollution from road traffic as early as the first trimester of pregnancy and in early life is associated with small but significant...

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