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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.
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Leicester’s Roman and Medieval past explored at Festival of Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/john-lewis
University of Leicester teams are involved in events and displays across the region for the national Festival of Archaeology.
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Leicester diabetes expert’s research supports ‘game changing’ obesity breakthrough
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/semaglutide
Ground breaking research in diabetes led by a team of Leicester researchers has played an integral role in laying the foundations for new research published today, which reveals that a new anti-obesity medication is almost twice as effective in helping people lose weight than...
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2nd for the Diabetes Research Centre’s research in REF2021
https://le.ac.uk/drc/ref2021
Diabetes Research Centre's research highlights in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.
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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.
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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
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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.
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A tulip bulb, the value of which would have fed ‘a whole ship’s crew for a twelvemonth’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/04/07/a-tulip-bulb-the-value-of-which-would-have-fed-a-whole-ships-crew-for-a-twelvemonth/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 7, 2017 The tulip, with its bold, eye-catching flowers in a wide variety of gorgeous colours, is in bloom, in many of our spring gardens, making one of their most striking features.
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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...
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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