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Bestselling author Louise Doughty awarded Honorary Degree
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/louise-doughty
The bestselling Leicestershire-born author, playwright and journalist, Louise Doughty, has today (Wednesday 19 January) been awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Leicester.
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Our Space Heritage: Public event to celebrate Leicester’s long-standing space expertise
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/our-space-heritage
Professor Pounds, who was also guest of honour at the opening of Leicester’s new Space Research Centre earlier this year, said: “Moving to a lectureship in Leicester from the UCL Rocket Group – with a doctoral thesis still incomplete – reflected the pace of change in the...
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Celebrating six decades of research in the Adrian Building and 40 Years of Genetic Fingerprinting – Public Event, October 11th
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/genetics-adrian-richard-iii-dna
To mark the forthcoming closure of the Adrian Building, the former Department of Genetics, Genomics and Cancer Sciences (GGCS) is hosting a public event on Saturday, October 11th, in Lecture Theatre 2 of the Sir Bob Burgess Building, Welford Road.
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My Suffering is my Badge of Honour
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2019/05/21/my-suffering-is-my-badge-of-honour/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on May 21, 2019 Last week I attended the first International Conference on the Mental Health & Wellbeing of Postgraduate Researchers.
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PGR Careers blog University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2014/07/14/new-format-career-management-provision/
PGR Careers blog from the University of Leicester
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Gender discrimination in the UK.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/gender-discrimination-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Following on from last week’s TUC report which found that ‘Women who become mothers before 33 earn 15% less’, the UK Government this week released the results of a survey on pregnancy...
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United Nations Digital Library launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/22/united-nations-digital-library-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 22, 2017 The long awaited site combines a number of existing sources from UNBIS net in a more user friendly and mobile friendly format.
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Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/17/inequalities-in-the-twenty-first-century/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2019 IFS launch the Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century Deaton Review This review will involve experts from a range of disciplines including Sociology, Demography, Epidemiology,...
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UK Election
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/27/uk-election/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2015 Fantasy Front bench Who would be your fantasy front bench for the UK government? This fun tool has been created with the support of mySociety and Joseph Rowntree Trust using data from...
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Scoping Failure
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/10/26/scoping-failure/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on October 26, 2018 This week a colleague returned from a conference with some interesting feedback on the conversations she had been involved in around the purpose of a PhD and the views held by various stakeholders.