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  • Academic comments on the rise of kids activities being marketed to adults

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/academic-comments-on-the-rise-of-kids2019-activities-being-marketed-to-adults

    Dr Jane Pilcher from our School of Media, Communication and Sociology has been featured in an article for The Guardian discussing why kids’ activities – such as bouncy castles and ballpits - are now being marketed to grown men and women.

  • University pilots Leicester Academy sports scheme

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/university-pilots-2018leicester-academy2019-sports-scheme

    The 2015/16 academic year has seen the Sports and Recreation Service pilot the ‘Leicester Academy’ programme, with the aim of becoming the University’s hub for students to access sport related opportunities such as coaching/officiating qualifications, workshops and training...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The height of gentrification?

    https://le.ac.uk/research/images-of-research/tia-ndu

    Tia Ndu, PhD Student has entered a piece entitled 'The height of gentrification?'.

  • Differentiating High-Involvement Management from High-Performance Work Systems: Why it Matters for U

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2020/07/17/differentiating-high-involvement-management-from-high-performance-work-systems-and-why-it-matters-for-uk-productivity/

    Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on July 17, 2020     Professor Stephen Wood argues that focusing on management practices that involve workers in workplace decisions could be the answer to the UK’s productivity crisis.

  • Increasing diversity among patients provides opportunity for empathy muscle workout

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/diversity-and-empathy

    New paper by University of Leicester researcher encourages health professionals to see diversity as an opportunity as a facilitator of empathy.

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