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• Event to celebrate slavery abolitionists

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/event-to-celebrate-slavery-abolitionists

  The achievements of two 19th century Leicestershire women who championed a fight against slavery are to be celebrated at a free event at the Attenborough Arts Centre on Saturday 26 September between 2-3pm.

• Research Involving Animals – Division of Biomedical Services

  https://le.ac.uk/dbs

  Research Involving Animals – Division of Biomedical Services unit houses the animals used for research and testing.

• Leicester academics explore possible BAME and COVID-19 link

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/bame-covid-bmj

  In a new paper published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), academics at the University of Leicester highlighted possible reasons why people from BAME backgrounds may have a higher incidence and severity of COVID-19.

• RISE – Research Institute for Social Mobility and Education

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/19/rise-research-institute-for-social-mobility-and-education/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 19, 2020 This week saw the launch of RISE  a new think tank, part funded by the University of Bolton which will conduct research into areas of education and social mobility policy...

• Cuts and austerity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/cuts-and-austerity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 What do the British public think of the cuts and austerity policy? Latest research from IPSO Mori shows 43% think public services are worse than 5 years ago but only 23% say they have...

• The Beer Game: supply and demand chains

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/23/the-beer-game-supply-and-demand-chains/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2024 The Beer Game was invented in the 1960s by Jay Forrester at MIT. The game was designed to teach about supply and demand chains .

• MediArXiv launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/08/mediarxiv-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2019 A new   scholar-led digital archive  for media, film and communication studies—has just been launched by Jeff Pooley , Associate Professor of Media & Communication,...

• Women in data science

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/22/women-in-data-science/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2019 A resource from Stanford University. The Women in Data Science initiative  was launched in 2018.

• The Story of the Gay Liberation Front in Britain: new digital resource

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/the-story-of-the-gay-liberation-front-in-britain-new-digital-resource/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 A new Google Arts and culture exhibition curated by staff at the LSE Library.

• Reith Lectures Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/01/reith-lectures-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2011 Audio files and transcripts of over 240 lectures from 1948 onwards. These lectures are funded by the BBC and aim to advance public understanding of contemporary issues.