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Violence against women in elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/violence-against-women-in-elections-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 IFES release reports about violence against women in elections. Their website now includes a section which documents efforts to measure and combat this.
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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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New issue of Museum and Society
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/16/new-issue-of-museum-and-society/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2023 Museum and Society, one of our university’s open-access journals, has published a new issue.
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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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Support our work
https://le.ac.uk/cite/sanctuary-seekers-unit/support
Volunteer or donate to support the University of Leicester Sanctuary work
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University project provides boost for womens empowerment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/university-project-provides-boost-for-womens-empowerment
A major international project investigating women academics’ careers in public universities in Pakistan has shattered preconceptions about women-only universities and identified them as progressive spaces that play a major role in developing women personally and...
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New academy aims to change nature of health care for older people
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/new-academy-aims-to-change-nature-of-health-care-for-older-people
A new academy has been set up in Leicester that hopes to tackle the challenges of ageing and change the nature of health care for older people.
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Human intelligence just got less mysterious, according to Leicester University’s neuroscientists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/human-intelligence
Neuroscience experts from the University of Leicester have released research that breaks with the past fifty years of neuroscientific opinion, arguing that the way we store memories is key to making human intelligence superior to that of animals.
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Work placement
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement
All students on our campus-based masters programmes in Museum Studies and Art Museum and Gallery Studies at the University of Leicester undertake an 8 week, full-time, work placement. Find out more.
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World on verge of extreme weather ‘tipping point’ warn Leicester researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/extreme-weather
Surface Temperature Research Group at University of Leicester gives warning in light of reports of record temperatures in 2023.