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  • The weekend effect in hospitals: Why we need evidence to underpin policy

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2016/09/16/the-weekend-effect/

    Professor Julian Bion and Dr Carolyn Tarrant discuss the complex evidence behind the weekend effect and efforts to implement 7-Day Services, including results from the HiSLAC study, and emphasise the importance of using independent evidence to underpin healthcare policy.

  • Protecting children from war and violence

    https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/social-justice/protecting-children

    In any society subjected to war or violence, children are the innocent victims. Even if they are not injured themselves, the experience is understandably traumatic.

  • Stephen Wood

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/sjw111/

    Professor of Management

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Morning after Brexit

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2016/07/05/the-morning-after-brexit/

    Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on July 5, 2016   Brendan Lambe. Lecturer in Finance and an Irish European, reflects on the meaning of the referendum.   On the morning of the 24 th of June we awoke to a Britain which had changed utterly.

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