University News and Events
How have young people’s experiences of unemployment changed since the 1980s?
Research teams from the University of Leicester and the University of Glasgow aim to explore unemployment, insecurity and vulnerability among young people during two key periods of economic instability
Research Development Fund 2012/2013
The College of Social Science has set aside a total of £100,000 in its budget to the Research Development Fund (RDF) for the academic year 2012/2013.
College of Social Science funding for research student reading groups, discussion groups etc
We are pleased to announce that the College is now able to provide funding for tea, coffee and biscuits to support initiatives such as reading/ discussion groups or groups where students present their work to each other, where these are organized on the students' initiative. This is in order that we support activities which are ongoing in some departments and Schools (Economics, Education and Management), and encourage other initiatives of this kind.
Careers Opportunity: Media Fellowships
Do you want to put science in the headlines? If you do then the British Science Association Media Fellowships are for you. Experience first-hand how science is reported by spending 3-6 weeks on a summer placement with a press, broadcast or online journalist such as the Guardian, The Irish Times or BBC.
Creating impact from Leicester’s research: 28 February 2013 event
Academics, including Dr Leah Bassel from the Department of Sociology, will share their experience of creating impact from Leicester’s research at an event on 28 February, organised as part of Research Focus Week.
Presentation of awards to Maltese distance learning graduates
Human Resources students benefit from Leicester’s internationally accessible courses.
Call for Contributions for BSA Postgraduate Event
Employability and the Graduate Labour Market, 22 June 2012, University of Leicester
Logics of Exposure: The Problem of Unmasking 2.00pm Tuesday 20th March
Professor Peter Baehr (Chair Professor of Social Theory, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, and Academic Dean of Social Sciences, Lingnan University, Hong Kong) will present on the problem of unmasking.
Graduation Success
There was graduation success for Professor Furlong who was awarded his DLitt at the CLMS graduation ceremony in January.
Human toll of factory production
Visiting scholar from Hong Kong will discuss labour conditions in a Chinese factory, as part of the Centre for Labour Market Studies' first seminar of the year.
Leicester academic presents at Maltese HR event
Dr Mary Crow was a keynote speaker at a recent business conference in the middle of the Mediterranean.
