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Job Security in the Public Sector is Dwindling
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2013/11/27/job-security-in-the-public-sector-is-dwindling/
Posted by Stephen Wood in School of Business Blog on November 27, 2013 Professor Stephen Wood, co-author of the latest Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) Report, “Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession” , suggests the Government’s austerity programme will...
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US elections: historic data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/09/us-elections-historic-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2020 Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House Representatives – Election Statistics The Clerk of the U.S.
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University of Leicester supports Government pledge to end victim NDA use
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/end-victim-nda
The University of Leicester has supported a call to action from the Department of Education, by signing a pledge to end the use of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) when dealing with student and staff complaints of sexual misconduct, bullying and other unacceptable behaviour.
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Professor Paul Monks to join BEIS as new Chief Scientific Advisor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/professor-paul-monks-to-join-beis-as-new-chief-scientific-advisor
The University of Leicester’s Professor in Atmospheric Chemistry and Earth Observation Science Paul Monks is to join the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as its new Chief Scientific Advisor.
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The Anthropocene as Rupture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/the-anthropocene-as-rupture
Australian academic Professor Clive Hamilton will be discussing how over the last two decades the new discipline of Earth System science has taught us to think of the Earth in an entirely new way during the latest Geography Research Seminar, taking place on Wednesday 24 May.
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What and When is Death? By Floris Tomasini
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/11/09/floris-tomasini-what-and-when-is-death/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on November 9, 2015 In this blog post I’d like to talk about two forms of death, biological and social death, through the conceptual lens of personal identity.
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Where is the Love in engineering
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/where-is-the-love-in-engineering
The UK is predicting a ‘skills gap’ of approximately half a million engineers by 2022, mainly due to retirements, according to Professor Helen Atkinson CBE, FREng, head of our Department of Engineering.
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Foreign Aid Explorer (US)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/11/foreign-aid-explorer-us/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 11, 2019 USAID has developed a new tool which aims to increase aid transparency in relation to US historical foreign aid.
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Sky at Night scientist is unveiled as next University of Leicester Chancellor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/margaret-aderin
Space scientist and presenter of the BBC’s The Sky at Night, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, is to be installed as the new Chancellor of the University of Leicester.
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The Mexico-US border
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/11/16/the-mexico-us-border/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2022 South from the North: The Mexico-US border and beyond is a teaching resource from Box of Broadcasts which may be of interest to Media and Communications, Spanish and Latin American...