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• The Gender Gap in Internet Access

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/31/the-gender-gap-in-internet-access/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 31, 2017 On 15 th March 2017, the Broadband Commission Working Group on the Digital Gender Divide launched its final report Recommendations for action: bridging the gender gap in Internet and...

• Social media and health

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/22/social-media-and-health/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 22, 2017 The most recent study by Royal Society for Public Health found in a survey of social media that Instagram was recorded as having the most negative impact on the mental well being of young...

• Physics and Astronomy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/author/paul_mcmillan/

  Centenary celebrations Posted by Physics and Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 21 May 2025 The first students to study physics at what was then University College, Leicester were enrolled in 1925. A class of 10 students were enrolled, and a single lecturer appointed.

• Partners

  https://le.ac.uk/engagement/partners

  Taking a partnership approach with key organisations in the region, we can be more effective in making a transformative impact in communities and on society.

• Leap in modelling human impact on climate may lead to early warning of climate disasters

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/tipping-points

  Mathematicians led by the University of Leicester have applied statistical mechanics to climate change detection and attribution for first time, showing how to separate the ‘signal’ of human-made climate change from the ‘noise’ of natural climate fluctuations

• Expert opinions cover British Summer Time and Henry VIIIs six wives

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/expert-opinions-cover-british-summer-time-and-henry-viiis-six-wives

  PhD students Liz Round and Katie Bridger, from the School of History, Politics and International Relations, debate Lucy Worsley’s ‘Six Wives’ programme which aired on BBC One in December 2016.

• Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 19 25 November

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-19-25-november

  Dr Daniel Ladley from the Department of Economics has written an article for The Conversation discussing how cooperative groups work better than competitive groups.

• Hours of driving and watching TV lower IQ scores research suggests

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/hours-of-driving-and-watching-tv-lower-iq-scores

  A doctoral student from our University has commanded global media coverage for a study that found that driving for more than two hours a day appears to steadily reduce intelligence.

• Spring seminar series 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/spring-seminar-series/archive/2016

  Browse our 2016 spring seminar series in the Victorian Studies Centre.

• Dr Richard Hopkinson

  https://le.ac.uk/hopkinson-group/richard-hopkinson

  Learn more about Dr Richard Hopkinson, our lead in the Hopkinson Group at the University of Leicester.