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A healthy US election
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/12/a-healthy-us-election/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2020 Stanford-MIT Project on a Healthy Election A joint project to bring together resources about the conduct of the US 2020 presidential elections includes report cards and data on...
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Drugs legislation requires review, says academic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/drugs-misuse-scarman-lecture
The main piece of legislation used to combat illegal drug use in the UK is no longer fit for purpose, according to a leading criminologist at the University of Leicester.
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Medical student takes part in The One Show’s Rickshaw Challenge
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/26-medical-student-takes-part-in-rickshaw-challenge
Phoebe Avbulimen with Matt Baker doing the rickshaw challenge 1900|University of Leicester medical student Phoebe Avbulimen completes the Rickshaw Challenge for Children in Need On Friday 16 November 2018, University of Leicester medical student Phoebe Avbulimen,...
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Conversations With… Prof. Emma Bunce
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/12/18/conversations-with-prof-emma-bunce/
Posted by ejb71 in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 18 December 2020 Professor Emma Bunce is the Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy and is the current President of the Royal Astronomical Society. Emma and her working from home setup.
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Nominations Committee
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/committees/council/nominations
See the Nominations Committee's terms of reference and membership, including details of their role, responsibilities, reporting hierarchy and meetings.
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International Security Studies MA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/international-security-ma/2026
Whether they're political, economic, religious or environmental, international security issues can stem from all corners of society. You’ll learn what these key issues are, but more importantly, how to tackle them head-on.
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A Price worth Paying? Short Term Economic Recovery and the Loss of a Generation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/02/05/a-price-worth-paying-short-term-economic-recovery-and-the-loss-of-a-generation/
Posted by Melanie Simms in School of Business Blog on February 5, 2014 Melanie Simms, Professor of Work and Employment at the School, highlights the under-reported blind-spot in the over-reported fact of an emergent economic recovery: today’s youth are unlikely to be...
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Can Leicester City win the Premier League
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/can-lcfc-go-on-to-win-the-premier-league
The Foxes are enjoying extraordinary success this season and are currently two points clear at the top with 12 games remaining, despite being bottom of the table at the same stage last season.
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Winner of Leicester competition to receive photograph from space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/winner-of-leicester-competition-to-receive-photograph-from-space
Children around the UK are invited to enter a competition organised by the University's National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO), the UK’s leading research centre for studying our planet using observations from satellites in space, to win a large photograph of Earth...
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Leicester study to improve crop plants
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-study-to-improve-crop-plants
Dr James Higgins (pictured) from the Department of Genetics has been awarded a New Investigator grant (£450,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication.