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University to confront regional issues with Centenary Community Engagement Fund
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/community-fund
The University of Leicester is working with community partners across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to respond to some of the most pressing issues impacting the region.
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University of Leicester is =26th in the world for research quality in latest global ranking
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/26th-research-quality-global-ranking-times-higher-education
Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026 place Leicester =26th for research quality and positions Leicester 192nd overall out of 2191 institutions
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Measuring GEM outcomes
https://le.ac.uk/gem/resources/outcomes
This project aims to understand what matters to older people with frailty receiving acute care, and to develop methods for measuring these outcome goals.
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British Social Attitudes survey released
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/12/12/british-social-attitudes-survey-released/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 12, 2011 http://www.natcen.ac.uk/study/british-social-attitudes-28th-report Major social attitudes study released on the net by National Centre for Social Research. Conducted annually since 1983.
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Eurobarometer site upgrade
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/13/eurobarometer-site-upgrade/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2015 European Commission has recently revamped the Eurobarometer website.
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Only 7% of people describe themselves as feminists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/22/only-7-of-people-describe-themselves-as-feminists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2016 According to the results from the 2016 Fawcett society state of the nation report only 4% men and 9% women polled labelled themselves as feminists.
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Universal credit – does anyone benefit?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/universal-credit-does-anyone-benefit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 IFS has conducted an economic analysis into the impact finding tha t it ‘will tend to weaken the incentive for single parents to be in work, and to strengthen the incentive for...
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Girls are more unhappy with their lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/03/girls-are-more-unhappy-with-their-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2018 Shocking findings f rom the latest Children’s Society Annual Report .
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Responsible Finance in Wales
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/17/responsible-finance-in-wales/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2016 Launch of Responsible Finance A body which represents responsible finance lenders in the UK. It is the new name for the Community Development Finance Association.
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Wider determinants of Health Tool launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/10/wider-determinants-of-health-tool-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2017 A great new tool for Public Health England which uses official data to explore the social and economic and environmental factors which impact on the health of the English population.