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Ophthalmology researcher awarded prestigious prize
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/ophthalmology-researcher-awarded-prestigious-prize
A researcher from the University's Ulverscroft Eye Unit is the 25th recipient of the prestigious Vernon Prize Trophy for Ophthalmological Research, which was first endowed in 1993.
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Midlands Racial Equality in Medicine Conference 2023
https://le.ac.uk/cls/cls-equality/edi-in-practice/conferences-and-meetings/mrem-conference-2023
Midlands Racial Equality in Medicine Network Conference 2023 information and registration links
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Russell Lee coal mining exhibits
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/russell-lee-coal-mining-exhibits/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 From the US National archives historic photographs of working lives in the USA.
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Stolen Relations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/stolen-relations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 A digital repository about enslaved indigenous people from Brown University. Includes a collection of historical primers on Indigenous slavery in the Americas, timelines, maps and documents.
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Humanitarian Encyclopedia
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/humanitarian-encyclopedia/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 C reated by the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, the Encyclopedia currently includes 129 commonly-used humanitarian concepts.
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Work and pay
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/work-and-pay/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 Find out how pay compares in different sectors using this quiz from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
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Trump Twitter archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/trump-twitter-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 Trump Twitter archive has stored tweets from September 2016 until the account was suspended in January 2020. Items can be downloaded in csv files.
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MDB Reform Accelerator
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/13/mdb-reform-accelerator/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 MDB Reform Accelerator Multilateral Development Banks, or MDBs, are supranational institutions set up by sovereign states, which are their shareholders.
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Glossary of UN terms
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/glossary-of-un-terms/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 For those who find the abbreviations used by the UN and its agencies difficult to understand t ry the latest free app which covers common acronyms and a glossary of terms.
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Tax
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/20/tax/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 20, 2015 In its most recent report Americans for Tax Fairness referred to a ‘Whopper of a tax Dodge’ alleging that Burger King owes $117 million in tax to the US government.