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Leicester researcher contributes to Coventrys successful UK City of Culture bid
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/leicester-researcher-contributes-to-coventry2019s-successful-uk-city-of-culture-bid
A postgraduate researcher from our University has been involved with Coventry’s successful bid for ‘City of Culture’ 2021, which was awarded on Thursday 7 December during an episode of BBC One’s The One Show.
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Leicester and JWST
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/projects/james-webb-space-telescope/leicester-and-miri
Leicester scientists and engineers were the mechanical engineering lead for the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Leicester-led review shows around one in three hospital infections involve antimicrobial resistance
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/antimicrobial-resistance-amr-leicester-hospital-infections
A University of Leicester-led study shows that in hospital settings antimicrobial resistance is common and independently associated with a higher risk of death.
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Leicester Hate Crimes Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/03/leicester-hate-crimes-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2014 Leicester Hate Crimes Project The broad aims of the Leicester Hate Crime Project were to examine people’s experiences of hate, prejudice and targeted hostility understand the physical...
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Online Gender Gap Audit published
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/26/online-gender-gap-audit-published/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 26, 2016 The World Wide web Foundation has recently launched its first audit of the difficulties women face at getting online.
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CILIP children’s book medal winners 2017
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/22/cilip-childrens-book-medal-winners-2017/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 22, 2017 The CILIP medals have been announced. http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/2017-winners-announced.php We have the books in stock in our resources collection, floor 1, yellow zone.
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Field Guide to Fake News
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/field-guide-to-fake-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Recently Dartmouth college analysed the extent of election news manipulation in the 2016 USA presidential election.
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Stream Congress and Capitol Words
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/06/stream-congress-and-capitol-words/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2012 http://streamcongress.
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Who uses social media?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/25/who-uses-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 25, 2013 The latest Pew report (covering the USA) provides a snapshot of the social democgraphics of Internet users by categories such as age, race, gender and income: http://www.pewinternet.
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Mapping digital Nigeria
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/03/mapping-digital-nigeria/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2012 http://www.soros.org/reports/mapping-digital-media-nigeria A 96-page report from the Soros Foundation.