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• Decolonisation: Race equality and Higher Education

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/decolonisation

  Education in the UK is often lionised as an institution that is fundamentally meritocratic. Its mantra might read: Success is achieved through hard work, commitment and determination, irrespective of who you are or where you come from.

• Leading heart researchers to appear in BBC documentary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leading-heart-researchers-to-appear-in-bbc-documentary

  Leading heart researchers at our University are to appear in a BBC documentary - after finding a link between red meat and heart disease.

• Articulate

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/articulate

  In 2008, the National Gallery commissioned RCMG to evaluate the second phase of Articulate, their secondary school literacy programme.

• Global Gender Pay Gap report

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/04/15/global-gender-pay-gap-report/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2021 Closing the gender pay gap will take 135 years according to shocking statistics from the  latest Economic Forum report  This report benchmarks the evolution of...

• Global military spending is rising.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/18/global-military-spending-is-rising/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 18, 2018 According to the latest annual report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ).

• Global Abortion Policies Database launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/global-abortion-policies-database-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 Free access to this new resource created by UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) which enables...

• The need to forge new models of international partnership

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/apollo-blog

  Henrietta O’Connor shares the University of Leicester's international partnership model built on complementary areas of expertise, identifying shared aims, and finding areas of commonality.

• First global report on smuggling of migrants

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/22/first-global-report-on-smuggling-of-migrants/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 22, 2018 Just released by UNODC, the first report on the nature and impact of the smuggling of migrants . It includes infographics and data on numbers and routes plus profiles.

• Leicester to host national summit focusing on adult learning

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicester-to-host-national-summit-focusing-on-adult-learning

  On 25 November the University will host a special one-day national summit on widening access, retention and success for mature learners in higher education. The summit is being organised by NEON, the professional body for widening access and social mobility.

• 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.