Search

21247 results for: ‘%s’

• African American Student Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/29/african-american-student-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2022 Database – African American Student Project  University of Michigan resource covering 1853-1970 which documents and maps black students enrolled at the university.

• Human Development Report 2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/human-development-report-2014/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 Human Development Report 2014 published annually by the  United Nations Development Programme  (UNDP) puts people at the centre of measuring development- looking at the...

• Children and Social Media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/children-and-social-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 How much time do British children spend using social media each day? Results from Ofcom which is based on 3-day digital diaries of 186 primary school children and 173 secondary.

• Parliamentary rules database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/18/parliamentary-rules-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2019 ParlRulesData.org  is a machine‐readable dataset of House of Commons Standing Orders between 1811 and 2015.

• Bitcoin ‘offers opportunities to charities’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/bitcoin-offers-opportunities-to-charities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 According to the latest report from the Charities Aid Foundation online currencies such as Bitcoin could enable charities to  cut currency transfer costs and encourage transparency.

• Pacific Manuscript Bureau

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/16/pacific-manuscript-bureau/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2022 Pacific Manuscript Bureau   is useful tool for researchers of ethnography and colonial, social, political history of the region.

• Netflix research

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/25/netflix-research/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2018 Netflix have just launched their own official site where they will be posting white papers and articles on what they are researching. See the Netflix official blog for further details.

• Centre for Hate Studies Commissioned to Evaluate Victim Support Services

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/centre-for-hate-studies-commissioned-to-evaluate-victim-support-services

  Leicester criminologists have been commissioned by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire to lead a project designed to inform the development of a new hate crime strategy and victims’ support service.

• New tennis facilities net community award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/new-tennis-facilities-net-community-award

  The University of Leicester has received the first ever Leicestershire Community Venue of Year award from the Aegon British Tennis Awards for the Roger Bettles Sports Centre and its new tennis facilities.

• Expert opinions cover publishing difficulties political rivalries Donald Trump and RRS Boaty McBoatface

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/expert-opinions-cover-the-difficulties-of-being-published-when-covering-hard-to-classify-topics

  Professor Martin Parker from the School of Management has written an article for the Times Higher Education about the difficulties of being published when writing about difficult-to-classify topics, such as those of an interdisciplinary nature.