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• Training apprentices: do small firms do it better?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/10/08/training-apprentices-do-small-firms-do-it-better/

  Posted by Dan Bishop in School of Business Blog on October 8, 2014 Dan Bishop, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, challenges the ‘large firm’ paradigm on which apprenticeship-oriented politics has conventionally been based Apprenticeships and small businesses have...

• The Continuing Imperialism of Free Trade

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/12/03/the-continuing-imperialism-of-free-trade/

  Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on December 3, 2018   In this post Dr Chris Grocott, Lecturer in Management and Economic History in ULSB, discusses his recently published book, co-edited with Dr Jo Grady (University of Sheffield), on the continuing...

• Distrust of Employer’s Responses to COVID-19 Could Increase Both Presenteeism and Absenteeism in UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2020/05/20/distrust-of-employers-responses-to-covid-19-could-increase-both-presenteeism-and-absenteeism-in-uk-workplaces/

  Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on May 20, 2020 People’s trust in their employer’s response to COVID-19 will shape their attitudes to returning to the workplace, Professor Stephen Wood writes.

• Social Security and the Gig Economy – Lessons from the French Intermittents du Spectable scheme.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2023/12/07/social-security-and-the-gig-economy-lessons-from-the-french-intermittents-du-spectable-scheme/

  Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on December 7, 2023 A radical redesign of the UK benefits system for gig economy workers could draw inspiration from a French scheme that covers art industry workers writes Guillaume Wilemme and Piotr Denderski of the...

• Delivering Sexual Harassment

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/01/18/delivering-sexual-harassment/

  Posted by Jo B in School of Business Blog on January 18, 2018   In our first blog of the new year, Professor Jo Brewis explores the ways in which the gig economy is providing an insidious new means for women to be exposed to sexual harassment.

• Stephen Wood

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/sjw111/

  Professor of Management

• Cricket Country shortlisted for prestigious non-fiction prize

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/cricket-country-shortlisted

  A book by a Leicester academic exploring the untold history of the first All India cricket team has been shortlisted as one of six entries for the Wolfson History Prize 2020.

• Mike Le Bas

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/mike-le-bas

  We are saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Michael John Le Bas, who was Senior Lecturer in Igneous Petrology in the Department of Geology from 1961 to 1992.

• Study proves reducing sitting time boosts office staff’s work engagement and wellbeing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/11-reducing-sitting-time-boosts-office-staffs-wellbeing

  Teams from the University of Leicester and Loughborough University investigated simple solutions to reducing sitting time in the office.

• Activist Museum Awards 2024 winners announced by Research Centre for Museums and Galleries

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/activist-museum-2024

  Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) has announced the winners of the prestigious Activist Museum Award 2024.