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• Connecting Africa

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/13/connecting-africa/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 Connecting-Africa is supported by the Netherlands African Studies Association (NVAS). It provides free access to digital resources on Africa.

• ACLED Conflict Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/09/acled-conflict-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 The ACLED Conflict  Index A new indicator relating to civilian impact of conflict.

• UK Web Archive launches new search interface

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/15/uk-web-archive-launches-new-search-interface/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2017 Now in beta a new improved search service for tracing historic websites.

• UNESCO: Guidance on Generative AI in Education 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/06/unesco-guidance-on-generative-ai-in-education/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2023 UNESCO publishes the first-ever global Guidance on Generative AI in Education and Research , designed to address the disruptions caused by Generative AI technologies.

• Lit&Phil Society: Ernest Rutherford: from Kiwi farm boy to President of the Royal Society

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/08/litphil-society-ernest-rutherford-from-kiwi-farm-boy-to-president-of-the-royal-society/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 November 2022 Professor Mary Fowler will give a talk to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society on Monday, 14th November, about her Great Grandfather, Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics.

• The State of Broadband 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/05/the-state-of-broadband-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 Latest annual report from  (ITU/ UNESCO) Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development shows that 57% of the world have no broadband access.

• Paragon Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/paragon-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 Institute of Economic Affairs launch Paragon Project The IEA is a free market think tank founded in 1955.

• Fuel poverty and cold homes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/fuel-poverty-and-cold-homes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 Fuel Poverty and Cold homes is worse in Britain t han in other European nations according to a ranking by the Association for the Conservation of Energy .

• European Data Portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/european-data-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Launched this month, a new resource developed by the European Commission offering free access to over 240,000 datasets from 28 European Nations.

• How can UK universities improve the teaching of quantitative research methods in the Social Sciences

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/how-can-uk-universities-improve-the-teaching-of-quantitative-research-methods-in-the-social-sciences/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 This is the topic of a major new report just published by the British Academy .  It calls for a greater emphasis upon developing skills more extensively and earlier in courses.