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Additional tickets available for David Attenborough lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/sir-david-attenborough-lecture-ticket-information
Due to unprecedented demand for tickets for Sir David Attenborough’s lecture ‘Beauty in Nature’ on Thursday 28 January, the venue for the event has been changed to De Montfort Hall which offers increased capacity.
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Out of this world art needed for iconic space hub’s new mission patch
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/mission-patch
Space Park Leicester invites inviting children, young people or adults with a love of space to help design their new mission patch.
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Management research training
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/study/research-degrees/management-research-training
Find out about research training modules for research degrees at the University of Leicester School of Business. Research training for postgraduate research programmes is delivered by the Social Sciences Doctoral Research Training centre (SSDRT).
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USA 2016 elections: New York Times Resource
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/usa-2016-elections-new-york-times-resource/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 Good use of technology from the New York Times: its Election 2016 bot can send users live news updates.
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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What questions will be in the next census?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/what-questions-will-be-in-the-next-census/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 Recently the Office for National Statistics undertook a consultation on future topics and questions that users of the England and Wales census wanted or felt should be included.
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ORBIS
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/09/orbis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2015 The European Political Strategy Centre has launched ORBIS – the Open Repository Base on International Strategic Studies.
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Good Practices for Urban Refugees Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/31/good-practices-for-urban-refugees-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 31, 2017 A site created by UNHCR staff to gather together good examples of policy and practical implementation for those working with urban refugees.
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Longer lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org.
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The World Wide Web is 30 years old
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/18/the-world-wide-web-is-30-years-old/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2019 On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for what would become the World Wide Web to his boss at the European Organization for...