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• Project to investigate how offenders engage with treatment in different settings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/project-to-investigate-how-offenders-engage-with-treatment-in-different-settings

  Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship that will investigate why offenders do and do not engage with treatment in prison, forensic hospital and community settings. As many as 86% of offenders do not successfully complete rehabilitation programmes.

• New report demonstrates impact of programme preparing refugees for academic life

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/report-impact-programme-preparing-refugees-academic-life

  The RefugEAP Programme supports refugee-background students aspiring to university in developing their English for academic settings using a trauma-informed approach, run as a unique joint collaboration between the University of Leicester and the University of Leeds

• Two University of Leicester projects shortlisted for Museum and Heritage Awards 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/museum-heritage-awards

  Two projects from University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies have been shortlisted for the prestigious Museum and Heritage Awards.

• UK National Police Air Service safer thanks to the work of University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/13-uk-national-police-air-service-npas-flight-deck-safety

  Dr Andrew Bennett standing next to a helicopter|Dr Simon Bennett researches flight-deck human factors to improve safety The National Police Air Service (NPAS), created in 2012, provides tactical air support to the 43 police forces of England and Wales from a network of 14 bases.

• Nick Standen

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/nick-standen

  Noel Davies and Ian Forsythe write: Nick Standen, Professor of Physiology at the University of Leicester, died after a long illness on 2 April 2020 (born 8 December 1949).

• East Midlands programme to support 30 doctoral researchers tackle climate change and mental health through storytelling

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/january/climate-mental-health-storytelling-phd-east-midlands

  A new doctoral training centre utilising the power of storytelling to tackle the climate crisis and mental health will be launched in the East Midlands.

• Rebecca Moore: Page 2

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/author/rlm19/page/2/

  PhD student working on the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project

• The Scottish Suffragette Cities Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/09/the-scottish-suffragette-cities-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2019 New website from Robert Gordon University  which aims to map the struggle for the women’s vote in Scotland.

• Globally women earn 24% less than men

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/01/globally-women-earn-24-less-than-men/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2015 Regional gender pay gaps vary from an average 33% in South Asia to 14% in the Middle East and North Africa.

• An LGBTQ+ history project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/09/an-lgbtq-history-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2022 Paud’s Pins – an LGBTQ+ history project   An LGBT community archive which comprises over 100 badges belonging to former Gay’s the Word  bookshop manager Paud Hegarty.