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Expert comment Leicester Citys decision to sack Claudio Ranieri symbolic of obsession with change
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-city2019s-decision-to-sack-claudio-ranieri-symbolic-of-2018obsession-with-change2019
Professor Stephen Wood, from the University of Leicester, has discussed the controversial sacking of Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri in an interview with Ben Jackson on BBC Radio Leicester.
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Get to know your brain at Neuroscience events for Brain Awareness Day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/neuroscience-research-demonstrated-for-brain-awareness-day-1
The University will be hosting two events for Brain Awareness Day on Wednesday 15 March. GCSE and A-Level students are invited to attend an afternoon of activities which will explain a range of brain research between 12.30-3.30pm followed by an evening event for all from 6pm.
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Research reveals air pollution can alter the effectiveness of antibiotics and increases the potential of disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/study-reveals-air-pollution-can-alter-the-effectiveness-of-antibiotics-and-increases-the-potential-of-disease
Researchers from the University have for the first time discovered that bacteria that cause respiratory infections are directly affected by air pollution - increasing the potential for infection and changing the effectiveness of antibiotic treatment.
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Investors and Investees Behaviours
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/finance-governance-and-enterprise/investors-and-investees-behaviours
Financial innovation has opened financial markets to unprecedented numbers of retail investors with no or limited knowledge and experience of actively participating in financial markets.
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Colonialism, prison and mental health
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/colonialism-prisons
The University of Leicester in partnership with the University of Guyana and the Guyana Prison Service
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Congratulations to Dr Jennifer Carter for being awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/09/13/congratulations-to-dr-jennifer-carter-for-being-awarded-a-dorothy-hodgkin-fellowship/
Congratulations to Dr Jennifer Carter for being awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
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Is your bank under stress?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/is-your-bank-under-stress/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Read the latest report from the Bank of England for 2015 – the tests ‘assess the resilience of UK banks and building societies to a deterioration in global economic conditions.
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Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD) online platform
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/big-allied-and-dangerous-baad-online-platform/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 …from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) University of Maryland.
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1.1 million abusive tweets sent to women in 2017
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/04/1-1-million-abusive-tweets-sent-to-women-in-2017/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 4, 2019 …according to large-scale research undertaken by Amnesty International and Element AI , a global artificial intelligence software product company.
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IMF gender equality data tool
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/imf-gender-equality-data-tool/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 IMF has conducted the first-ever global review of policymakers’ use of tax and spending policies to promote gender equality and has released an online database toolkit of gender...