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• Ethnic Minority staff are paid less

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/ethnic-minority-staff-are-paid-less/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Shocking findings from UCEA  the Universities and Colleges Employers Association  in their latest report released this week.

• Two new volcanic ‘super-eruptions’ discovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/yellowstone

  A new study published in Geology by Leicester academics has highlighted the discovery of two new super-eruptions originating from the Yellowstone hotspot track, including what they believe was the volcanic province’s largest and most cataclysmic event.

• School children invited to take part in Leicester’s COP28 celebration

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/cop28-poster-competition

  Space Park Leicester and the National Centre for Earth Observation are inviting school children to send in their pictures, posters and infographics about climate change.

• Pint of Science festival returns to Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/pint-of-science

  Tickets have launched for the world’s largest festival of public science talks, which will see more than 20 scientists take to the stage in venues across Leicester.

• Life sciences industry partnering meetings now taking bookings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/life-sciences-industry-partnering-meetings-now-taking-bookings

  The IAX showcase event on Wednesday 16 May at Winstanley House, Leicester, is the first activity in the University’s new 18-month IAX programme funded through the Medical Research Council’s Proximity to Discovery Scheme.

• Leicester scientists in discovery of new type of plant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-scientists-in-discovery-of-new-type-of-plant

  Dr James Higgins from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology has been involved in the discovery of a new type of plant growing in Shetland. Scientists at the University of Stirling discovered the plant – with its evolution only having occurred in the last 200 years.

• New strategic partnership to explore four-dimensional first order controls on nickel mineral systems

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/bhp-ev-metals

  The project and partnership with BHP has developed directly from recent work by the Leicester-UWA group that has shed new light on the processes involved in the sources and transport mechanisms of metals through the lithosphere in magmatic systems, published in Nature...

• Giving refugees a voice in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/engagement/case-studies/csr/refugee-eltu

  In partnership with Leicester City of Sanctuary, our English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) offers free English classes to asylum seekers and refugees, open to people with all levels of English fluency.

• Canadian Gender Gap tracker launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/canadian-gender-gap-tracker-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 Informed Opinions has produced the  Gender Gap Tracker  in partnership with Simon Fraser University.

• Shot at dawn in the Great War: Re-evaluating justice in the case of Harry Farr. By Floris Tomasini

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/10/03/shot-at-dawn/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on October 3, 2016   Today’s post looks at a re-evaluation of justice in an emblematic case study; Harry Farr who was shot for cowardice during the Great War.