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• World’s first disability hate crime conference will help to tackle Britain’s shameful problem

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/disability-hate-crime

  For the first time ever, victims, academics, support organisations and elements of the criminal justice system will meet to discuss the impact of disability hate crime.

• Rotting fish help solve mystery of how soft tissue fossils form

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/fish-ph-fossils

  One of the finest examples of such fossils includes a Cretaceous-era octopus of the extinct genus Keuppia unearthed in Lebanon, estimated to be at least 94 million years old. Sarah Gabbott is a Professor of Palaeobiology and co-author of the paper.

• Secrets of sharing iconic space heritage to be revealed in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/june/iconic-space-heritage

  Doug Millard of the Science Museum will give his talk 'The Flights of the Seagull: Bringing Tereshkova’s Spacecraft (and Rubin) to the Science Museum' on Thursday 25 June at Space Park Leicester

• Solar System samples touch down in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/winchcombe-hayabusa2

  Samples from other worlds have touched down in Leicester, to be analysed by space scientists studying the building blocks of our Solar System.

• Leicester expands international offer for student placements

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/turing-scheme

  Leicester students will be offered even more global opportunities to enhance their studies in the next academic year, funded by a major UK Government project.

• Occupy Wall Street protest site

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/occupy-wall-street-protest-site/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://occupywallst.org/ This website is a good example of the Internet being used to organise protests. The website includes user generated maps, video streams and organisers materials.

• 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.

• 100 Voices that made the BBC – Elections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/100-voices-that-made-the-bbc-election/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 A significant new audio and visual archive of historic election coverage released as part of a research project by the BBC and University of Sussex.

• Social mobility and child poverty

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/social-mobility-and-child-poverty/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 The Social Mobility and Child Poverty (SMCP) Commission releases major report .

• Anti-corruption

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/07/anti-corruption/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2014 EU launches major anti corruption report This surveys the situation in each of the member states, allowing cross country comparisons.