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• An Oxford Quarrel: Evelyn Waugh and Hugh Trevor-Roper

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2017/09/19/an-oxford-quarrel-evelyn-waugh-and-hugh-trevor-roper/

  Milena Borden gives a brief history of Evelyn Waugh's hostile relationship with Hugh Trevor-Roper - and asks what it tells us about Oxford's post-war battle of ideas.

• Funding opportunities

  https://le.ac.uk/bhf-accelerator/funding-opportunities

  The British Heart Foundation Accelerator Award will fund several new posts for high calibre researchers early in their careers and provide them with the training, mentoring and support to enable them to become the research leaders of the future.

• Recent actions from UCU: statement

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/recent-actions-from-ucu-statement

  In response to recent actions from UCU, the University of Leicester is today releasing the following statement.

• Macron’s labour reforms are a major test for France’s trade unions

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/11/14/macrons-labour-reforms-are-a-major-test-for-frances-trade-unions/

  Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on November 14, 2017   Heather Connolly, Associate Professor of Employment Relations at ULSB ( hmc33@le.ac.uk ), on why President Macron’s labour reforms are a major test for France’s trade unions.

• Censoring Academics works well for Publishers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/06/18/censoring-academics-works-well-for-publishers/

  Posted by Ken Weir in School of Business Blog on June 18, 2014 Kenneth Weir, Lecturer in Accountancy at the School, examines the popularity of a controversial article which he, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley , recently published (about publishing) In 2012, the...

• Study shows regularly standing up helps prevent Type 2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/study-shows-standing-up-helps-prevent-type-2-diabetes

  Women who have an inactive daily routine and are at high risk of Type 2 diabetes can help prevent the condition by regularly standing up or walking for five minutes at a time, a new study has found.

• Back to the Future Why it should never be remade

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/back-to-the-future-why-it-should-never-be-remade

  To film aficionados, today is a very special day - 21 October 2015 is famous amongst Back to the Future fans as it is the day to which Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, travels when he is sent to the future in Back to the Future II.

• Pokmon Go helps highlight Leicesters inventive approach to communications

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/pokemon-go-helps-to-highlight-leicesters-inventive-approach-to-communications

  The Pokémon Go craze has helped millions of people around the world to ease the Type 2 diabetes burden by walking and catching digital monsters. Now, the viral app has helped our University snag an accolade for its 'inventive' approach to communications.

• Fallen soldier whose family founded local building society remembered by our University

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/fallen-soldier-whose-family-founded-local-building-society-remembered-by-our-university

  A local soldier who fought during the First World War is being remembered on the centenary of his death by our University on Friday 4 November.

• Art and sociology help to reveal lives of British South Asian Women

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/art-and-sociology-help-to-reveal-lives-of-british-south-asian-women

  Leicester sociologists will collaborate with a local artist to bring new insights to their research into the experiences of migrant communities in the UK.