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Sociology student awarded UN internship in Indonesia
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Student Cindy Colondam, who is due to start her second year studying Sociology, has been working as an intern for the United Nations (UN) as part...
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 10 16 September
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President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has written an article with researchers Lucy Smith, Nicola Cooper, Kate Williams and Henrietta...
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Women are more fairly funded in the social sciences
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Accounting for academic position, women are as successful as men at winning grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and they...
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Flexible degrees offered by Leicester
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Leicester is pioneering its ‘Pathways’ programme, which it believes will provide the most flexible curriculum in the UK, with students able to...
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 1117 June
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Dr Daniel Zadik from the Department of Genetics has written an article for The Conversation exploring food intolerance in ancient cultures.
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Society and Crisis Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluations of Societal WellBeing
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The Department of Sociology hosted a one day symposium on 4 June focused on measuring societal well-being during current recession.
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 4 10 June
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Professor Melanie Simms from the School of Management has discussed on The Conversation how the recent successes of the Rail, Maritime and...
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 28 May 3 June
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John Williams from the Department of Sociology has written a piece for The Conversation on Sepp Blatter, who before recently resigning from his...
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 14 27 May
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Professor Steven Brown from the School of Management has written a piece for Germany's The European Magazine about how a “memory boom†has left...
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Leicester reaches one million readers on The Conversation
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Academics from across the University have collectively captured the imagination of over one million readers through more than 100 articles on The...