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Electronic Maps to Assist Public Science
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/10/electronic-maps-to-assist-public-science/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2014 Emaps Project A project funded by the EU which commenced in 2011.
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Where is the best place to be a working woman?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/where-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-working-woman/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 To mark International Women’s day the Economist created a ‘glass-ceiling index’ which uses OECD data to rank factors including gender pay gaps and labour force participation.
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Compare the NHS with other health services
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/compare-the-nhs-with-other-health-services/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 Economist Intelligence Unit has just published a report which compares the NHS with healthcare services in 30 other OECD nations.
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Eurostat
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/09/eurostat/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2015 The statistical office of the European Union provides high quality statistics on the European economy, demographics, industry, trade, environment and technology.
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2016 Global Food Security Index findings report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/2016-global-food-security-index-findings-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 This is the fifth edition of an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) study, commissioned by DuPont, w hich covers issues of affordability, availability and quality of food across 113...
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A history of general elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/14/a-history-of-general-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2024 A history of General Elections online exhibition based on LSE Library archives. It has images of artefacts and blog postings on the history of parliamentary elections from 1838 onwards.
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Black Freedom Struggle in the United States.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/05/black-freedom-struggle-in-the-united-states/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 5, 2020 An open-access archive of primary sources covering the following six topics: Slavery and abolition Civil war and reconstruction Jim Crow segregation 1878-1932 New Deal and WWII Civil...
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A century of human genetics
https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/century
Read through a lecture delivered by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the Leicester Medical Society Bicentenary.
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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).
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Graham Martin
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/author/gpm7/
Graham originally trained in geography and after he finished his Master’s, started his first academic job as a research assistant in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Leicester, one of the departments that evolved into the current Department of Health Sciences.