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• 8 people own the same wealth as 50% of the world’s population

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/8-people-own-the-same-wealth-as-50-of-the-worlds-population/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 This week the latest annual meeting of the World Economic Forum took place at Davos.

• 86-year-old PhD graduate amongst University of Leicester’s Class of 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/stan-hardie

  An 86-year-old was amongst the thousands of students who graduated from the University of Leicester last week. Stan Hardie was awarded a PhD in History on Thursday (17 January), making him the oldest graduate of the University’s Class of 2023.

• Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester: The School of Criminology and S

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/

  The School of Criminology and Sociology: follow us to find out who we are and what we do.

• “We must celebrate”: England’s World Cup win 50 years on

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/07/29/we-must-celebrate-englands-world-cup-win-50-years-on/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on July 29, 2016 On 30 July 1966 England won the World Cup.

• Leicester professor receives King’s honour for services to healthcare

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/liz-draper

  A University of Leicester professor who has devoted her life to research into the health and wellbeing of babies and children has been honoured by the King

• Contemporary Labour Reform: Where “Pay Rise” Equals diminished household income and “Progressive’s”

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/08/04/contemporary-labour-reform-where-pay-rise-equals-diminished-household-income-and-progressives-anything-but/

  Posted by in School of Business Blog on August 4, 2015 Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations, Jo Grady, looks behind The Welfare Reform and Work Bill’s upbeat rhetoric to reveal the downplayed reality   “Britain deserves a pay rise and Britain is...

• Space Park Leicester enables UK support of ispace’s historic Lunar Lander Mission

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/meridian-lunar-launch

  Space Park Leicester's Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) used by Dr Sam Richards of Meridian Space Command to support the launch of ispace's lunar lander

• One in four of London’s green spaces breaches air quality safety limits

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/10-london-no2-levels

  More than one quarter of London’s parks, playground, and open spaces exceed international safety limits for air quality, potentially putting thousands of children and vulnerable Londoners at risk.

• Author’s insight into library of ancient wisdom to be explored at Literary Leicester festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/selena-wisnom-literary-leicester-book-talk

  An expert in Middle Eastern heritage will be giving a free talk about a once-lost library of ancient wisdom, as part of the Literary Leicester festival.

• Award-winning TV space scientist explores Space Park Leicester’s latest innovations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/tv-space-scientist-maggie-space-park-leicester-innovations

  Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Chancellor of the University of Leicester, recently had an exclusive tour of its £100 million science and innovation park, Space Park Leicester