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Leicester Law School hosts distinguished African lawyer and diplomat
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/namira-negm-visit
Ambassador Dr Namira Negm, the current Director of the African Migration Observatory, recently visited the University of Leicester and learned about the impact that law researchers and students are making
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Spacepower on Earth’s ‘cosmic coastline’ key to future large-scale conflicts, expert warns
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/cas-spacepower
Global developments in military spacepower are likely to play a major role in future conflicts, an expert has warned.
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Kazakhstan
https://le.ac.uk/study/international-students/countries/asia/kazakhstan
We welcome students from Kazakhstan. Find out about entry requirements, the Kazakh student community and other country-specific information.
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Politwoops and other Twitter-related sites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/10/politwoops-and-other-twitter-related-sites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2013 Politwoops: (deleted tweets from politicians ) enables keyword searching for deleted tweets. It is offered in a number of countries.
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Happiness research
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/01/happiness-research/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 1, 2011 This week the Office for National Statistics released the results of a public consultation on indicators which the British public feel should be used to measure happiness National...
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Paris attacks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/paris-attacks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 News reports Two useful sites which aggregate reports from other sources 24/7 News Now covers more than 40,000 sources. Country indicated by national flag next to the headline.
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It’s nice to be important, but is it really more important to be nice?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/02/07/its-nice-to-be-important-but-is-it-really-more-important-to-be-nice/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on February 7, 2018 The late British entertainer Bruce Forsyth had amongst his several catch phrases “it’s nice to be important but it is more important to be nice”.
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British Police and Race
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/05/police-and-race/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 British Police and Race The Centre for Crime and Justice has just provided free access to a collection of articles under the heading #BlackLivesMatter which discuss aspects of policing...
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British Library for Development Studies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/05/british-library-for-development-studies/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 A marvellous site to explore as more full content is being added is the British Library for Development Studies (BLDS). Get free aces to materials not readily available elsewhere.
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Tax havens- find out where they are located!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/28/tax-havens-find-out-where-they-are-located/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2017 If you have some spare cash to hide away try consulting this useful site created by the CORPNET group at the University of Amsterdam .