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Press Freedom Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/press-freedom-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 3 rd May is designated by the United Nations as World Press Freedom Day.
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Human Rights Impact Assessment Framework
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/16/human-rights-impact-assessment-framework/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2023 Human Rights Impact Assessment Framework , launched recently by Oxfam, is a new toolkit which aims to allow assessments of how good companies’ Human Rights Impact Assessments are.
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UKREN: UK Race and Europe Network
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/ukren-uk-race-and-europe-network/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 The UK Race and Europe Network is a national network of UK non-governmental organisations interested in combating racism in Europe.
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2016 summer Olympics and Paralympics web archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/04/2016-summer-olympics-and-paralympics-web-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2016 Free access via the Archive-It service to material collected by the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) There are over 4,000 materials from a range of...
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ESA Digital Twin Earth Precursor: Climate Explorer
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/09/23/esa-digital-twin-earth-precursor-climate-explorer/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 23 September 2020 NCEO-Leicester win ESA contract to develop a “Digital Twin Earth Precursor” Dr Robert Parker, part of the National Centre for Earth Observation and the School of Physics and Astronomy, has...
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EDI in HEIs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/01/27/edi-in-heis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2023 Equality, diversity and inclusion showcase – London Higher A report, case studies and information on the work HEIs have done recently on gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity,...
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The Magazine Rack
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/27/internet-archive-magazine-rack/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2018 Worth revisiting. Free access via this great site to a downloadable collection of over 34,000 digitized magazines and other monthly publications. They can be sorted by title or date.
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Trees and Bees
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/sdgs/biodiversity/trees-and-bees
Plant and Pollinator Policy Our Plant and Pollinator Policy (PDF, 174KB) aims to enforce the importance of biodiversity on campus for students, staff and the wider public that provides significant social, wellbeing, capital, economic returns, wildlife and...
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Fellowship award will allow Leicester researcher to launch genetic study of lung disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/fellowship-leicester-researcher-genetic-lung-disease
A University of Leicester researcher has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Career Development Fellowship to lead a groundbreaking study into the genomics of bronchiectasis.
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Watergate digital records
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/watergate-digital-records/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 From the US National Archives and Records Administration To mark the 50th anniversary of the break-in on June 17, 1972 which led eventually led to the resignation of American President...