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Corruption in the management of technology threatens public safety, says University of Leicester academic in new book
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/corruption
Read more about the new book by Dr Simon Bennett, Corruption and the Management of Public Safety: The Governance of Technological Systems
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Two new Heads of School announced
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/new-cssah-heads
Two new Heads of School have been appointed within the University of Leicester’s College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (CSSAH). Lisa Smith, Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester, has been appointed as the Head of the School of Criminology.
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New resource strips everyday Roman handwriting bare
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/latinnow-manual
A new open-access resource to help researchers study Roman handwriting has been released. Volume 1 of the Manual of Roman Everyday Writing is now available, produced by the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project.
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Celebrating 40 years of DNA fingerprinting
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/dna-fingerprinting
Today (10 September) marks the 40th anniversary of a ground-breaking discovery that transformed the way criminal investigations were carried out: DNA fingerprinting.
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Making of Black Britain
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/making-of-black-britain/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 Making of Black Britain is a non-profit organization collecting stories of the resilience of ordinary people. See: https://themakingofblackbritain.org/ https://artsandculture.google.
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LGBT+ history exhibitons, plus playlist
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/02/23/lgbt-history-exhibitons-plus-playlist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2022 Online exhibition from the Bishopsgate Institute to commemorate LGBT+ history month and a physical exhibition they are holding at the Barbican centre.
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Temporary Trade Barriers Database (World Bank) updated
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/temporary-trade-barriers-database-world-bank-updated/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 This database collects information on the use of temporary trade barriers by 30 countries from the 1980s- 2024. Includes information and downloadable files on anti-dumping measures.
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Global policing Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/23/global-policing-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2024 Global Policing Database Created by researchers at the University of Queensland, this free searchable resource indexes case studies of evaluations of what works in policing tactics.
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ULA/HIS/FOU/2, Memorial Portraits Book, Photograph of Garth Smithies Taylor
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/14/garth-smithies-taylor-1896-1916/g-s-taylorweb/
ULA/HIS/FOU/2, Memorial Portraits Book, Photograph of Garth Smithies Taylor
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Delivering online teaching
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/12/10/delivering-online-teaching/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2021 University of Kent ‘s Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars YouTube Channel.