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18170 results for: ‘Department of The History of Art and Film’

• How one woman’s app is changing political communication

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/how-one-womans-app-is-changing-political-communication/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 Pia Mancini from Argentina is developing IT tools that can empower communities to get involved in politics worldwide in this recent Guardian newspaper article.

• Digital Documentary Resources in Nilgiri and Coimbatore (1850-1970)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/03/27/digital-documentary-resources-in-nilgiri-and-coimbatore-1850-1970/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 27, 2023 The collections digitised in this project consist mostly of photographs dating from the late 19th to mid 20th centuries.

• The Geography of the Criminal Corpse: Magic, therapies and bodily pieces across Europe. By Francesca

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/01/19/francesca-matteoni-the-geography-of-the-criminal-corpse-magic-therapies-and-bodily-pieces-across-europe/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on January 19, 2016   I have been involved in the first two years of the project as a postdoctoral researcher working on the medico-magical employment of the criminal corpse’s pieces: hands, fingers,...

• Do mobile phones effect student learning?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/do-mobile-phones-effect-student-learning/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Interesting new article from Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff, Stevie Munz & Scott Titsworth published online, on 21st May 2015, in Communication Education.

• 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 This is an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls.

• Leicester Earth Observation expert unravels SpaceX spiral phenomenon for BBC’s The Sky at Night

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/earth-observation-expert-spacex-spiral-phenomenon

  Professor Paul Monks gives his expert insight for the long-running BBC astronomy TV programme.

• Leicester mathematicians working with geoscientists from Weatherford give the possibility to see structures deeply in the Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-mathematicians-working-with-geoscientists-from-weatherford-give-the-possibility-to-see-structures-deeply-in-the-earth

  Mathematicians from our Department of Mathematics and geologists from Weatherford, which provides technologies and services to the oil and gas industry, have developed a new software tool for visualising the structure of the Earth deep underground.

• Accuracy of web-based news

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/20/accuracy-of-web-based-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 20, 2015 How news websites spread rumours Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content – a new report from the Tow Center examines the role of journalists .

• Social Mobility, or lack of same

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/social-mobility-or-lack-of-same/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 ‘Social mobility policies have made little Impact’ according to the latest Social Mobility Commission report which assesses 20 years of government policy.

• Global university ranking of employability

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/18/global-university-ranking-of-employability/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2016 Which university graduates are favoured by employers?  See the 2016 ranking of 150 institutions from the Times Higher .