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• Exposure to air pollution associated with increase in sedentary time, study finds

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/pollution

  Long-term exposure to current levels of UK air pollution has been found to be associated with an annual increase of up to 22 minutes of sedentary time each day, in a study published in the Journal of Public Health.

• Budhan Stories

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/28/budhan-stories/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 28, 2024 A brand new open-research collection from Dr Alice Tilche (University of Leicester School of Museum Studies) has been published on the Leicester Research Archive It is a collection of...

• The Autism-Ready Libraries Toolkit

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/02/the-autism-ready-libraries-toolkit/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2023 The Autism-Ready Libraries Toolkit has been created by University of Washington iSchool to provide librarians with inclusive, research-based strategies to create inclusive environments...

• Decoding gigantic insect genome could help tackle devastating locust crises

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/locusts

  A ‘game changing’ study deciphering the genetic material of the desert locust by researchers at the University of Leicester, could help combat the crop-ravaging behaviour of the notorious insect pest which currently exacerbates a hunger crisis across many developing countries.

• UK to tackle danger of the solar wind and find new Earth-like planets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/08-solar-wind-smile-plato

  New national space funding worth £7 million will ensure UK scientists play a leading role in a new space weather mission, the Science Minister Chris Skidmore announced on the first day of British Science Week (8 March).

• Professor Mike King

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2026/mike-king

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• Primary Sources: speeches

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/04/1266/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2013  Library of Congress Recorded Sound Collections. The National jukebox is its open access section. Which has classic recordings.  For speeches, choose spoken word speeches.

• Presidential debates

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/22/presidential-debates/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 22, 2012 See video footage and transcripts from the official Commission on presidential debates: http://www.debates.

• Feminist Struggles in the Academy in the UK and India 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/03/feminist-struggles-in-the-academy-in-the-uk-and-india/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2020 A new  comic book based on a wider research project   funded by the University Grants Commission and the UK-India Educational Research Initiative and led by Radhika Govinda and...

• LGBT and work

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/24/lgbt-and-work/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 24, 2017 A report from the TUC – the cost of being out at work –  reported nearly 39% LGBT responding to their survey had been victimised or discriminated against by colleagues.