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Real-world business challenges solved by adding maths students to the equation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/maths-students-industrial-placements
University of Leicester's School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences celebrates another round of successful collaborations between industrial partners and students.
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University of Leicester co-launches International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/avoidable-deaths
The Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN) has launched the first International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths today (13 March) in Izumiotsu, Japan. International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths hopes to raise the visibility of disaster deaths.
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 714 April
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-7-14-april
Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans from the Centre for Medical Humanities has written an article for The Conversation exploring how it could be a good idea to discuss topics such as sex, rape and pornography in classrooms in order to properly educate young people about...
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The Cultural Heritage of LGBT Activism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/the-cultural-heritage-of-lgbt-activism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 A new online exhibit from Europeana. It gives a short history of Pride festivals using items such as photos and badges from Europe’s leading library and museum collections.
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Bloomberg: geographical distribution of revenue
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/28/bloomberg-geographical-distribution-of-revenue/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 28, 2013 Analysing a company’s revenue geographic breakdown is interesting angle to predict future strategic development. Find case studies using the function FFM on your Bloomberg terminals.
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About
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/about/
Consuming Authenticities is the project blog of an AHRC-funded research project “Consuming Authenticities: Time, Place and the Past in the Construction of ‘Authentic’ Foods and Drinks” involving scholars from the Universities of Leicester, Exeter, Wales Trinity St David, and...
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Inactive adults urged to get moving to avoid developing type 2 diabetes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/inactive-adults-told-to-2018get-moving2019
People in Leicestershire are being ‘urged to get moving or risk jeopardising their health’, after research revealed adults in the county are among the most inactive in England.
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FeedSax - Feeding Anglo-Saxon England
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/people-and-places/feedsax-feeding-anglo-saxon-england
The University of Leicester's archaeology research collaboration with Oxford University, Feeding Anglo-Saxon England AKA Feedsax
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Outside and beyond: 'Deconstructing a Medieval manuscript'
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/research/case-studies/medieval-manuscript
Museum Studies PhD student Armand De Filippo discusses his research into sensory responses to Medieval manuscripts.
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Suggested reading
https://le.ac.uk/geography/study/undergraduate/suggested-reading
If you’d like to expand your awareness of Geography, take a look at our reading suggestions. (Don’t worry, it’s not compulsory!) BSc Geography Bullard: Dumping in Dixie.