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• Pick up the pace! New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/slow-walk-covid

  Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19 and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the virus, according to a team of researchers from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre led by...

• Europe-wide data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/europe-wide-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 T he European Data portal has now passed from Beta to permanence.  You can now use it to quickly find news and the latest open data from EU nations.

• 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.

• Exhibition: Women, Politics, Textiles

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/14/exhibition-women-politics-textiles/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2022 What Lies Beneath: Women, Politics, Textiles  is a 2022 exhibition being held physically in New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, it also has an accompanying...

• Visualising Palestine

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/15/visualising-palestine/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2017 This award winning site was originally launched in 2012.

• Primero: New Humanitarian open source software

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/03/primero-new-humanitarian-open-source-software/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2017 A potentially life–saving service which aims to provide free access to software and tracking devices for case workers protecting women and children in disaster or conflict zones.

• Arabian Gulf Digital Library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/10/arabian-gulf-digital-library/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2019 A collection from  the National Archives of the United Arab Emirates and National Archives UK which has text and images on the political, social and cultural history of the region.

• American Federal reserve launch Facebook page

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/30/american-federal-reserve-launch-facebook-page/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2016 On the first day of its launch the new Facebook page received 11,00 likes but it is was also widely criticised.

• Quality of Government OECD data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/quality-of-government-oecd-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 QoG OECD Data is compiled by an independent research institute within the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg.

• Social data during the COVID-19 pandemic

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/04/27/social-data-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2020 Useful crowd  sources Google Docs  being coordinated by Ben Geiger University of Kent and the National Centre for Social Methods.