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Family Online Safety Grid Directory update
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/family-online-safety-grid-directory-update/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Global Resource & Information Directory (GRID ) was first launched in 2010 by the Family Online Safety Institute in partnership with UNICEF.
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Internet affordability
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/12/14/internet-affordability/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2020 Where is the internet inaffordable? Get the data from the latest annual report of the Affordable Internet Alliance .
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Edelman Trust barometer 2018
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/edelman-trust-barometer-2018/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 Has revealed that large percentages of people worldwide (especially in the USA where it dropped overall by 37%) have experienced a decline of trust in business, government, NGOs and...
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Preparing for an Interview
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/blog/2015/09/30/waffle-not-the-good-kind/
How to overcome pre-interview nerves, avoid losing focus during an interview and learn about your nervous behaviours.
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The World Wide Web is 30 years old
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/18/the-world-wide-web-is-30-years-old/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2019 On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for what would become the World Wide Web to his boss at the European Organization for...
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The Clink restaurant at HMP Brixton: fine dining and prison education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/07/21/the-clink-restaurant-at-hmp-brixton-fine-dining-and-prison-education/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 21, 2014 By Sarah Longair, Carceral Archipelago Project Researcher.
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Leicester delegation to bring environmental research insights to the heart of COP29
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/cop29
University of Leicester researchers will bring their expertise in climate, sustainability and environmental issues to this year’s COP event in Azerbaijan
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COP29: What it’s like behind the scenes at the world’s largest climate conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/tim-neff
An interview with Lecturer in Journalism Dr Tim Neff as he attends COP29.
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Overcoming Challenges in Strangulation Research
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2024/01/30/overcoming-challenges-in-strangulation-research/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on January 30, 2024 Harriet Smailes PhD Student Undertaking research in the area of strangulation is vital to better understanding the nature and extent of these acts.
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Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/12-baby-pterodactyls-flying-from-birth
A breakthrough discovery has found that pterodactyls, extinct flying reptiles also known as pterosaurs, had a remarkable ability – they could fly from birth.