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  • Leicester delegation to COP30 includes experts covering climate from every angle

    |A delegation of experts from the University of Leicester is heading to the Conference of the Parties, or COP30, to bring the latest insights into climate change to policymakers and officials.

  • Socially Engaged Practice in Museums and Galleries MA, MSc, PGDip, PGCert, short course, by distance learning

    This is for you if... you want a flexible, part-time course that allows you to develop skills and expertise in addressing contemporary social issues in museums and galleries.

  • Nigerian Judiciary Workers and the Pursuit of Good Governance

    Posted by awynne in School of Business Blog on June 24, 2015 Senior Lecturer in Public Financial Management at the School, Andrew Wynne , considers the explicitly contested – and implicitly concealed – issue of good governance in Nigeria There have been numerous calls for a...

  • Rest in Pieces: The story of a hanged woman and her journey to becoming a museum object. By Ali Well

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on July 27, 2016   When referring to “skeletons in the cupboard” we rarely expect these to be literally true, but in the case of Mary Ann Higgins and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, it is.

  • Tackling Prolific Serial Offenders Through Crime Linkage: the What, Why and How

    Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on June 10, 2024 Matt Tonkin Associate Professor of Criminology & Director of Research for the School The majority of crime is committed by a minority of prolific serial offenders, with...

  • The Appeal of Hybrid Working

    Homeworking’s contradictory nature means in its pure form it can never be a perfect answer, but this means that hybrid working has the potential to be an alternative imperfectly perfect working arrangement.

  • The Morning after Brexit

    Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on July 5, 2016   Brendan Lambe. Lecturer in Finance and an Irish European, reflects on the meaning of the referendum.   On the morning of the 24 th of June we awoke to a Britain which had changed utterly.

  • What happens when the cash disappears?

    Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on February 17, 2017   ULSB PhD student Secki Jose explores the paradoxical effects of India’s recent decision to get rid of some of its banknotes to combat corruption. Secki can be emailed on spj15@le.ac.uk.

  • Macron’s railway reforms: the ultimate test for French trade unionism

    Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on April 19, 2018   In this blog Dr Heather Connolly reflects on the on-going strike action in France.

  • Thoresby Colliery and the Art of Minecraft

    Posted by James Fitchett in School of Business Blog on April 30, 2014 James Fitchett, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research at the School, traces the historical evolution of socio-economic illness in a Midlands city UK Coal recently announced the closure of the last...

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