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• Financial Models and Society: Villains or Scapegoats?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/10/24/financial-models-and-society-villains-or-scapegoats/

  Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on October 24, 2018   In this post Dr Ekaterina Svetlova, Associate Professor in Finance and Accounting in ULSB,  discusses her new book assessing the influence of financial models on markets and society.

• Air quality can be better for active commuters than drivers, research shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/commute-air-quality

  Their findings show that NO2 concentrations can be higher in car cabins (even electric car cabins) than alongside the road where people are walking and cycling.  Some PM2.5 can be removed, for example by pollen filters, meaning PM2.

• UK Disability History Month 2022: The Mosaic Oral History Collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/11/18/uk-disability-history-month-2022-the-mosaic-oral-history-collection/

  Posted by Lily Skelton in Library and Learning Services on November 18, 2022 16 November to 16 December 2022 is UK Disability History Month , an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history of the rights and dignity of disabled people.

• Suggested reading

  https://le.ac.uk/history/study/undergraduate/introductory-reading

  Thinking of applying for History at the University of Leicester? Expand your awareness of the scope of History before you begin your degree.

• Protecting endangered animals from illegal wildlife trade using mobile DNA sequencing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/09-illegal-wildlife-trade-conference

  University of Leicester researchers presenting innovative DNA analysis methods for testing samples to find species-of-origin at the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference between 11-12 October

• New £10.4 million research centre will unlock new tests, treatments and cures for people living with rare kidney diseases

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/lifearc

  Thousands of people living with rare kidney disease will have access to improved diagnostics, treatments and potentially cures, thanks to the creation of a new research centre, involving experts from the University of Leicester

• Visits to Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/richard-iii-and-leicester/visits-to-leicester

  Richard III visited Leicester often, both as a boy and as Duke of Gloucester. Find out about his final stay in Leicester at the Blue Boar Inn.

• Consuming Authenticities

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/consuming-authenticities

  Arts and Humanities Research Council (£54,753) November 2014 – November 2015 Cultural products often depend on ideas about authenticity for commercial success, drawing emotional responses from consumers and evoking a sense of local, ethnic or even national identity.

• Economics professor discusses research into what makes people vote in elections

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/economics-professor-discusses-research-into-what-makes-people-vote-in-elections

  Professor Eyal Winter from the School of Business has been featured in a ScienceNews article discussing how voter turnout increases when polling numbers are close. Research conducted by Professor Winter and colleagues in 2006 looked at U.S. gubernatorial races from 1990 to 2005.

• Standing Together Against Hate

  https://le.ac.uk/hate-studies/research/standing-together

  In response to the growing problem of hate crime and harassment on campus, the University of Leicester launched 'Standing Together Against Hate' - a project co-funded by HEFCE.