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• Surveillance and Power – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/10/21/the-protection-of-knowledge-as-the-production-of-ignorance/

  Posted by Tomasz Wisniewski in School of Business Blog on October 21, 2014 Geoff Lightfoot and Tomasz Wisniewski, Senior Lecturers in the School’s Finance and Accounting Group, describe information asymmetry as a politically prevalent predicament about which we should all be...

• University professor joins stars in cancer fight

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/university-professor-joins-stars-in-cancer-fight

  A leading scientist from our University has teamed up with Cancer  Research UK and Channel 4 to launch a celebrity-backed fund-raiser.

• “So, can we say ‘skills’?”

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/06/12/so-can-we-say-skills/

  Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 12, 2018   As those whose unhappy lot in life it is to have to listen to me moaning on about matters educational will know, I’m not a big fan of the term ‘skills’.

• Machine learning reveals clues to improved weather forecasting in our atmosphere

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/weather-patterns

  Inspired by statistical mechanics, scientists co-led by University of Leicester applied algorithms designed to study molecules to atmospheric data and identified patterns in atmospheric fields that give clues to when weather variations will occur

• Peter Jackson

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/peter-jackson

  The University has learned, with great sadness, of the death of Professor Peter Jackson, one of the longest serving members of our academic staff. A funeral service for Professor Jackson will be held at 12.

• Dr. Naomi Rowe-Gurney on taking a Leicester PhD to NASA

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/08/05/dr-naomi-rowe-gurney-on-taking-a-leicester-phd-to-nasa/

  A five-year break in China, a worldwide pandemic, and delays to the most complex space telescope ever built: none of these were enough to stop Naomi Rowe-Gurney breaking new ground to complete her PhD at Leicester and land a dream job with NASA.

• Blood clots during COVID-19 may be a cause of ongoing cognitive problems

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/brain-fog

  High levels of two proteins at the time of COVID-19 have been found in patients who later experienced cognitive problems, including ‘brain fog’, giving a major clue as to one cause of their symptoms: blood clots

• The School for Business?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/01/31/the-school-for-business/

  Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on January 31, 2018 In this blog, Professor Martin Parker offers some personal reflections on changes in the teaching and research of management at Leicester in the fifteen years he has worked here.

• ‘Seasonal, unprotected and undocumented’: What will post-Brexit immigration look like?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/04/01/seasonal-unprotected-and-undocumented-what-will-post-brexit-immigration-look-like/

  Posted by Fabian Frenzel in School of Business Blog on April 1, 2017 Now that Prime Minister Teresa May has signed Article 50, ULSB’s Dr Fabian Frenzel discusses the possibilities for post-Brexit immigration.

• Weight loss drug hope for patients with type 2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/weight-loss-drug-hope

  Patients with type 2 diabetes that were treated with a weekly injection of the breakthrough drug Semaglutide were able to achieve an average weight loss of nearly 10kg, according to a new study published in The Lancet today.