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• Approaching the Roman World

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/ah1701

  Module code: AH1701 How did Rome transform from an insignificant city state to become the ruler of the world? What role did gods and heroes play in the development of Roman society? What was the deal with all of the crazy emperors? Everybody knows about the Romans.

• Sri Lanka terrorism threats; get some academic facts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/sri-lanka-terrorism-threats-get-some-academic-facts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 The recent terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka  have left the world in shock.

• Prague Spring Digital Library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/27/prague-spring-digital-library/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 27, 2017 New from the  collaboration between the University of Texas at Austin, the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and the Lyndon B.

• Has the Gender pay gap worsened?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/12/has-the-gender-pay-gap-worsened/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 12, 2019 Though things are slowly improving at the University of Leicester , the media has reported that gap in wages between men and women is widening.

• Animation raises awareness of emotional impact of type 2 diabetes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/animation-raises-awareness-of-emotional-impact-of-type-2-diabetes

  Michelle Hadjiconstantinou, a health researcher from the Leicester Diabetes Centre, has created a whiteboard animation for World Diabetes Day (14 November) to bring awareness of the emotional impact that comes with living with type 2 diabetes.

• Contents of display case draw

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/the-beast-in-me-guest-post-by-armand-de-filippo-museum-studies/dav-4/

  9. Scrapers like this were used to remove hair and fat from the animal skin used to make parchment. The scents of Frankincense, Myrrh and Lubanja are sometimes retained within the folios of a manuscript and can still be smelt if we are lucky enough to get close enough.

• Digital Verification Corps

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/19/digital-verification-corps/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 19, 2021 The Digital Verification Corps  is a network of volunteers from 6 universities worldwide trained to verify social media videos and photos of potential human rights violations.

• CancerStories project recruiting young people with cancer across the East Midlands

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/cancerstories-project-recruiting-young-people-with-cancer-across-the-east-midlands

  An innovative project spearheaded by Professor Alex Mitchell from the Department of Cancer Studies is looking to recruit young people with cancer to share their stories via online video diaries.

• Sensing technology study identifies trees affected by deadly larch disease

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/sensing-technology-study-identifies-trees-affected-by-deadly-larch-disease

  Researchers from our University have used remote sensing technology by Leicestershire-based aerial mapping company Bluesky in order to identify trees affected by a destructive disease.

• About

  https://le.ac.uk/psychology-vision-sciences/research/health-and-wellbeing/alarm/about

  Background A key driver of antibiotic resistance is antibiotic overuse due to misinformation. Patients are often unaware of antibiotic resistance or falsely conceptualise antibiotics as ‘wonder drugs’.