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Oxfam launch land rights website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/oxfam-launch-land-rights-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 Oxfam have now gathered together reports, news and indicators on all aspects of their work on land rights on a new website .
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Window into China
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/01/window-into-china/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 1, 2013 A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website. It is collecting pieces written in China by Chinese scholars and experts. The emphasis is on security and foreign policy.
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Twitter and government bodies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/19/twitter-and-government-bodies/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2014 CIA launch Twitter account. Their first post was ‘we can neither confirm or deny that this is our first tweet.
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Past PhD projects
https://le.ac.uk/medieval/study/research-degrees/past-phd-projects
Browse the list of past medieval PhD projects undertaken at the University of Leicester. Thesis topics range across the whole of the Middle Ages and also across the full range of disciplines represented within the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.
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Bake Off star rustles up a recipe for chemistry success with new campus science kitchen
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/science-kitchen
A Great British Bake Off star has used his expertise to cook up a scientific kitchen at the University of Leicester.
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Dr Paul Campbell appointed Director of Leicester’s new Institute for Inclusivity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/liihe-director
Dr Paul Campbell has been appointed as the Director of the Leicester Institute for Inclusivity in Higher Education (LIIHE), an interdisciplinary research institute that will seek to lead a transformation in higher education through innovative research new.
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Films released to drive forward empathic healthcare education
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/empathy-healthcare-education-films-leicester
Films featuring three leading empathic healthcare experts sharing their knowledge with healthcare professionals and researchers in Leicester have been released online
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Fiendish Friday Quiz
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/03/07/fiendish-friday-quiz/
An Evelyn Waugh quiz originally published in the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter, 1982
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Northern Lights' growing impact on humanity to be explored in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/northern-lights-impact-humanity-explored
Dr Darren Wright of Space Park Leicester and the School of Physics & Astronomy to host ‘The northern lights: societal impacts of geomagnetic storms’ on 1 July
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Dr Sylvia Pinches
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/people/sylvia-pinches
Dr Sylvia Pinches received her doctorate in 2001, and has since held a number of posts, including as a researcher for the Compton Verney House Trust and as a curator at 78 Derngate, Northampton.