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Expert opinions cover ransomware arms races Brexit migrant workers and NASAs Juno mission
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/expert-opinions-cover-ransomware-arms-race-brexit-migrant-workers-and-nasas-juno-mission
UK universities may be among the most autonomous, but they need international cooperation to make their voices heard, says President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle in an article for the Times Higher Education.
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Social media, smartphone and internet usage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/03/social-media-smartphone-and-internet-usage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2018 Social media, smartphone and Internet usage is rising in ‘developing countries’ while developed countries’ usage plateaus a ccording to the latest report from the P ew research group.
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Expedition 352: Izu-Bonin-Mariana Forearc
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2014-15/izu-bonin
July 2014 - September 2014 The principal aim of Expedition 352 is to examine magmatic evolution, chemostratigraphy and arc crustal accretion processes associated with subduction initiation in intra-oceanic convergent margins.
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Photography exhibition returns to showcase research at the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/22-photography-exhibition-showcase-research
Twenty-five thought-provoking images capturing the cutting-edge research of the University of Leicester will be on display in a photography exhibition at Fraser Noble Hall on Tuesday 4 December 2018 from 11am to 4pm.
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Sydney Holloway
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/sydney-holloway
We have recently learned with great sadness of the death of Sydney Holloway, who was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester from the early 1960s to the early 2000s.
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Return of marked work
https://le.ac.uk/policies/quality/feedback/marked-work
University of Leicester policy on marked work ensures timely feedback is returned to support student learning and assessment literacy.
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PhD Physics student shares his experience working on the Cassini mission
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/phd-physics-student-shares-his-experience-working-on-the-cassini-mission
On 15 September 2017, after almost twenty years in space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made its final encounter with Saturn.
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Virtual Vauxhall Gardens
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/vvg/2019/04/02/virtual-vauxhall-gardens/
Posted by in Virtual Vauxhall Gardens on April 2, 2019 Introduction Virtual Vauxhall Gardens is a multidisciplinary project to create a multi-sensory, user-controlled, VR reconstruction of the experience of Vauxhall Gardens in 1752.
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University of Leicester and Alsama Project to establish a world-first certification to support displaced youth in accessing higher education
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/leicester-alsama-project-world-first-certification-displaced-youth
New certification will enable displaced youth to apply to higher education institutions worldwide and seek employment, supporting students in overcoming disrupted and/or informal learning due to conflict or disaster
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‘You want Pay-Rise with that?’ Strike Action, Fast-Food Style
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/11/19/you-want-pay-rise-with-that-strike-action-fast-food-style/
Posted by Paul Brook in School of Business Blog on November 19, 2014 In the age of much austerity and few alternatives, Paul Brook , Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Work and Employment at the School, makes a renewed claim for a politics of labour mobilisation Not...