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Attenborough Arts Centre joins worldwide Bloomberg Connects programme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/attenborough-arts-centre-bloomberg-connects-programme
Attenborough Arts Centre today announces a new partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies to join the worldwide Bloomberg Connects programme.
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Voluntary sector, learning disabilities and autism, and digital inequalities webinars
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/06/13/voluntary-sector-learning-disabilities-and-autism-and-digital-inequalities-webinars/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 13, 2025 The Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Beckett University has launched a series of free online webinars covering tips and guidance.
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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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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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Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/innovative-use-of-social-media-in-the-pakistan-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This used crowd sourced technology.
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African Integrity Indicators Launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/african-integrity-indicators-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 The 2016 indicators have recently been released by Global Integrity.
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Unfiltered News
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/unfiltered-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Launched by Jigsaw in April 2016, t his site seeks to expose those news stories which are being under-reported by the media in different areas of the world using Google Newsdata.
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How Facebook news presents different realities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/how-facebook-news-presents-different-realities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A new tool created by the Wall Street Journal Blue Feed Red Feed allows users to examine how different news sources cover political topics. See the Nieman reports.
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Trinity St David and People’s Collection Wales – Assembling Welsh Cider
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/04/25/peoples-collection-wales-field-officer-gruffydd-jones-has-been-out-scanning-material-on-behalf-of-dr-emma-jayne-abbots-and-elaine-forde-as-part-of-the-collaboration-work-towards-the-consuming-authen/
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on April 25, 2015 People’s Collection Wales field officer Gruffydd Jones has been out scanning material at http://www.museumwales.ac.
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How to create a simple podcast using Audacity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/06/17/how-to-create-a-simple-podcast-using-audacity/
Posted by Rachel Tunstall in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 17, 2016 Audio recordings and Podcasts are a good way to aid learning, and to use as a form of assessment.