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Using Adaptive Release to restrict access to content in Blackboard
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/10/11/using-adaptive-release-to-restrict-access-to-content-in-blackboard/
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on October 11, 2016 The Blackboard Adaptive Release feature allows you to restrict access to areas of Blackboard such as content folders, and to content items such as...
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Migration in the media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/22/migration-in-the-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2015 How do the media cover international migration stories? The report, Moving Stories, is published by the Ethical Journalism Network and reviews media coverage of migration in the...
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Homelessness
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/homelessness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Councils struggling to cope with homeless people.
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Will people in the UK live shorter lives?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/03/will-people-in-the-uk-live-shorter-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2018 This week the newspapers reported that life expectancy is falling or stalled in the UK for the first time since records began, but what are the facts on this? Here are some useful...
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Higher Education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/22/higher-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2019 Alternative pathways into higher education is an extensive free list curated by Newcastle University Australia It includes sections on widening participation and social justice.
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Digital Technology and Older people
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/21/digital-technology-and-older-people/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2015 A recent government report What are the likely changes in society and technology which will impact upon the ability of older adults to maintain social (extra-familial) networks of...
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Distributed and High-Performance AI Systems
https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/research/groups/distributed-and-high-performance-ai-systems
The Distributed AI Systems group provides theoretical and practical innovations in data intensive distributed systems (including clouds, HPC and quantum data centres), distributed machine learning models and self-adapting and physics informed digital twins to emulate the real...
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Ethnicity Facts and Figures website launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/16/ethnicity-facts-and-figures-website-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2017 This week a ground breaking site was launched by the UK government which provides facts and figures on race and ethnicity in the UK.
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Is it really Social Media?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/10/12/is-it-really-social-media/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on October 12, 2018 One day this week I sat in a coffee shop with a friend. Two men of a certain age, we discussed the phenomena of social media with wonder.
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World Autism Awareness Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/31/world-autism-awareness-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 31, 2017 2 nd April is World Autism Awareness Day.