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  • Gender balance in politics

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/gender-balance-in-politics/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 A crowdsourcing game called Gender balance  is trying to gather information about women in politics.  The data collected will then be fed into the everypolitician site.

  • Free speech at UK universities

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/02/23/free-speech-at-uk-universities/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2021 Read the government paper that was released this week and responses from: Office of the Independent Adjudicator WonkHE Universities UK NUS UCU Russell Group Posted in Criminology ,...

  • 1 million visits to UK Food Banks

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/27/1-million-visits-to-uk-food-banks/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2015 Trussell Trust has just released the shocking figures that in the last year more than 1 million allocations of food were made by the charity.

  • UNESCO open data

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/unesco-open-data/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 UNESCO has created a new portal with data on annual expenditure and ongoing projects since 2014.  It includes donor, regional and theme based information.

  • UK Doughnut – sustainable living standards

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/09/uk-doughnut-sustainable-living-standards/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2015 A new report from Oxfam considers how the UK can achieve decent living standards while remaining environmentally sustainable.

  • Many access news on smartphones

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/many-access-news-on-smartphones/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 According to a number of recent research studies many people are now using their smartphones. A report from the Knight Foundation recently found that , 89% of the U.S.

  • Schools and study

    https://le.ac.uk/cse/schools-and-study

    School of Chemistry School of Chemistry students in class together Computing at Leicester Computing at Leicester students chatting together in class School of Geography, Geology and the Environment School of Geography, Geology and the Environment abstract image of layers of...

  • Sakura celebration: Students plant ‘symbol of Japan’ on Leicester campus

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/cherry-blossom

    The tree planting was lent special significance in the University’s Centenary year, as Leicester’s first international student, Tamotsu Shishikura, came to the University College from Tokyo to study English between 1922 and 1924.

  • Fake News – a new tool

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/06/fake-news-a-new-tool/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2017 Hoaxy is a joint project of the Indiana University Network Science Institute ( IUNI ) and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research it aims to provide visualisations of fake...

  • Partnerships

    https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/about/partnerships

    Explore some of our partnerships with external organisations, including societies and museums concerned with Victorian history, literature, science and culture.

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