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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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New York Public Library Digital Collections enhanced access
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/new-york-public-library-digital-collections-enhanced-access/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 From January 2016 the New York Public library provides enhanced public domain access to its online collections which include thousands of stunning historical images.
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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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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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Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/23/foreign-policy-diplomacy-and-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 23, 2013 Foreign Policy magazine Release their annual list of top 100 key people to follow on Twitter See the full list that includes politicians, diplomats and key political thinkers.
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/centenary/our-100/research
Dive into Leicester's research projects in Our 100. From the discovery of DNA fingerprinting to the King found in a car park.
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Extended Translation Project
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ts7038
Module code: TS7038 In this module, we will explore how to manage sizeable lengths of translation. You will learn and use different translation strategies as appropriate to solve translation issues, and manage and translate a text of considerable length.
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Translating Different Genres
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ts7030
Module code: TS7030 Different genres use differing generic structures, language features and registers, and are intended for different audiences. Therefore, different genres need to be handled differently in a translation.
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Attitude and Orbit Control Systems
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/eg7040
Module code: EG7040 This module will introduce the limitations that classical control design, based on the use of nominal linear models, would encounter in a real-world operating environment such as unmodelled disturbances, uncertainty in the nominal model, and nonlinear effects.
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NERC Urgency Grant
https://le.ac.uk/clcr/research-projects/nerc-urgency-grant
Information on the NERC Urgency Grant, conducted by the University.