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Open government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/open-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 How open is your government? The latest Global Open Data Index from the Open Knowledge Foundation ranks 97 nations according to the openness of their data on 10 themes: national...
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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The World of RePEc
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/24/the-world-of-repec/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 24, 2017 A new paper explores the world of RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) the major database of economics papers.
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Liberating history testimonials
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/20/liberating-history-testimonials/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 This website was created by the Liberating Histories research team which is supported by Northumbria University, Arts and Humanities Research Council, The LSE Women’s Library...
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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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Introducing Leicester’s Juno Team, University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/16/introducing-leicesters-juno-team/
Introduction to the University of Leicester's Jupiter scientists.
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Rebecca Moore
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/author/rlm19/
PhD student working on the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project
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What can Critics of Management and Critics of Economics learn from each other?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/02/19/what-can-critics-of-management-and-critics-of-economics-learn-from-each-other/
Posted by in School of Business Blog on February 19, 2014 Neil Lancastle, one of the School’s current PhD students, brings his experience of curricular reform in economics to bear upon the promises (and problems) of being “critical” in a School of Management.
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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.