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The Biosphere in the Earth System
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy3437
Module code: GY3437 How are ecosystems determined by the chemo-physical system? How do they feed back to the physical climate system? How large is the carbon cycle feedback from the biosphere to the greenhouse effect? The biosphere is now considered an integral part of the...
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When you’re working, you’re working.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/08/01/when-youre-working-youre-working/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on August 1, 2018 This morning I read a very interesting article titled “Time to call time on out of hours email?” Whilst this article could be easily categorised as just another treatise on work-life balance and the...
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International Women’s Day – The Gender Pay Gap at the University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/ult/2017/03/08/international-womens-day-the-gender-pay-gap-at-the-university-of-leicester/
Menu Close University Leadership Team Home International Women’s Day – The Gender Pay Gap at the University of Leicester International Women’s Day – The Gender Pay Gap at the University of Leicester Posted by on March 8, 2017 Today March 8th 2017 marks International Women’s Day.
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Young people are less likely to own their own home
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/16/young-people-are-less-likely-to-own-their-own-home/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 16, 2018 According to the latest analysis from IFS: ‘In 1995–96, 65% of those aged 25–34 with incomes in the middle 20% for their age owned their own home.
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LGBT History Digital Collaboratory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/lgbt-history-digital-collaboratory/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 Exciting project based at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA), the Transgender Archives...
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Charlie Hebdo attacks: first anniversary
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/08/charlie-hebdo-attacks-first-anniversary/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 8, 2016 Twitter coverage of the anniversary The University of Oxford has translated and made free on the Internet a book on tolerance. With extracts from key French philosophers and writers.
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Leicester students set crowdfunding target to enter the IMechE Formula Student 2017
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-students-set-crowdfunding-target-to-enter-the-imeche-formula-student-2017
Leicester students are aiming to become the highest placed UK electric vehicle team at Silverstone for IMechE Formula Student 2017.
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Human Trafficking
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/human-trafficking-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 30th July was World Day Against Trafficking in Persons . The official UN website provides background on the need for the day and related United Nations publications.
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Using Diamond X-Rays to Explore Asteroid Surfaces
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/04/09/using-diamond-x-rays-to-explore-asteroid-surfaces/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 9 April 2021 In a new paper, Leicester’s Leon Hicks and colleagues used synchrotron X-rays to investigate how space weathering has altered the iron composition of samples from the Itokawa asteroid.
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Prague Spring – 50 years on
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/24/prague-spring-50-years-on/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 24, 2018 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union.