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Research project on gay migration and HIV-status is recruiting participants
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/13-project-gay-migration-hiv-status-recruiting-participants
Research project on gay migration Research project|University of Leicester seeking HIV-positive gay/bi/queer/MSM men needed for new research study Researchers at the University of Leicester are researching how HIV shapes the migration choices of gay men in Europe.
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Understanding election coverage using Big data
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/understanding-election-coverage-using-big-data
Researchers from our Department of Media and Communication, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, have for the first time analysed mass media coverage to understand how elections are covered by the press.
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Google and tax
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/google-and-tax/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The charity Full Fact has examined the claim that Google only pays 3% of its profits in tax. Consult its website to see what it concludes.
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Leicester to lead Royal Astronomical Society livestream of Uranus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/uranus-live
Astronomers and planetary scientists from the University of Leicester are to lead dedicated livestream observations of Uranus in partnership with the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) to bring live imagery of the planet to the public in the UK and around the world.
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Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene
A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the speed and scale of human energy consumption has pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.
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Sami Zubaida
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sami-zubaida
We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.
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Andrew Dunn: Page 6
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/6/
Academic Librarian.
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/6/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Mars Science Laboratory Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 3
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/page/3/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Paternity Leave
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/paternity-leave/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Do Fathers Want Shared Paternity Leave? Interesting story this week from the BBC that fewer than 1 in 50 fathers are taking the new extra paternity leave.