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Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award honour for Dr Suzie Imber
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/suzie-imber-rosalind-franklin
Dr Suzanne (Suzie) Imber, Associate Professor in Space Physics at the University of Leicester has been named as this year’s recipient of the prestigious Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture 2021.
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Jargon bingo
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2019/09/18/jargon-bingo/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on September 18, 2019 This is a draft preview version of a resource currently in production.
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Summer On Campus
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/06/10/summer-on-campus/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on June 10, 2016 With exam season drawing to a close (my sympathies to those continuing their studies through the summer), now is an opportune moment to relax and soak up some rays around the University campus.
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Double distinction for Leicester’s ‘Mr Antarctic Volcano’ in New Year Honours
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/john-smellie-polar-medal
University of Leicester volcanologist Professor John Smellie receives Polar Medal for the second time, from second monarch.
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Carbon monitoring mission using Leicester expertise ready for launch
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/microcarb
National Centre for Earth Observation scientists based at University of Leicester and University of Edinburgh are leading the UK science for European mission MicroCarb, which has completed assembly and qualification in the UK.
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Online fact-checking – a growing trend
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/06/online-fact-checking-a-growing-trend/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 6, 2016 A recent report from the Reuters Institute has traced the rise of political fact-checking sites in Europe. It recorded 113 such groups are active today.
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How happy are you? First Annual ONS Experimental Subjective Well-being Results
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/how-happy-are-you-first-annual-ons-experimental-subjective-well-being-results/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in the UK http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/wellbeing/measuring-subjective-wellbeing-in-the-uk/first-annual-ons-experimental-subjective-well-being-results/index.
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Economy of Cyprus
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/economy-of-cyprus/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 Find some back ground data on the ongoing crisis. Get Euro area debt data from the ECB: http://www.ecb.int/stats/gov/html/dashboard.en.
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New fact-check sites for French newspapers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/24/new-fact-check-sites-for-french-newspapers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2017 With recent concerns about Fake news, seventeen local and national newsrooms in France, including AFP, Buzzfeed News, Les Echos, Le Monde, Libération and La Voix Du Nord have...
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Flooding
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/flooding/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 The Global Risk data platform is a multiple agencies (partners include UNEP) effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards this includes floods,...