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World Humanitarian Data And Trends 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/world-humanitarian-data-and-trends-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 The United Nations Office For the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has just released the latest annual report which has overall country and regional data.
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A Cross-country Database of Fiscal Space
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/a-cross-country-database-of-fiscal-space/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 New for economic and economic historian researchers from the World Bank: a database of fiscal data which can be downloaded in Excel or Stat format.
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History of Economic Thought revamp
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/23/history-of-economic-thought-revamp/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 23, 2016 The website History of Economic Thought re-launched recently thanks to support from the Institute for New Economic Thinking . Run by Gonçalo L.
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Living wage level raised
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/living-wage-level-raised/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 The level of the living wage was raised by 40p an hour this week to £8.25.
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NMC Horizon Report 2016 Higher Education Edition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/nmc-horizon-report-2016-higher-education-edition/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 A collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. Download the full text from the website .
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Documenting Hate News Index launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/29/documenting-hate-news-index-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 29, 2017 Propublica in association with Google News Lab and a data visualization studio called Pitch Interactive has launched a site about hate crimes and bias incidents in the USA.
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Le Cas 68: Paris student protests history resource
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/18/le-cas-68-paris-student-protests-history-resource/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 18, 2018 This historical blog covers many of the key events and people that marked the spring of 1968.
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Award for ambitious and innovative project
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/award-for-ambitious-and-innovative-project
Dr Richard Alexander (pictured) from the Department of Physics and Astronomy's Theoretical Astrophysics Group has won a prestigious £1.4 million award dedicated to ambitious and innovative projects.
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University of Leicester successfully awarded UK Community Renewal Fund
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/community-renewal-fund
The University of Leicester has successfully received over £1 million from the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund (CRF).
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Flooding
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/flooding/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 The Global Risk data platform is a multiple agencies (partners include UNEP) effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards this includes floods,...