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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/18/u-s-press-freedom-tracker-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 18, 2017 Recently released a new independent tool which is aiming to track press freedom in the USA.
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World’s Women 2015: Trends and Statistics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/worlds-women-2015-trends-and-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015 World’s Women 2015: Trends and Statistics. Launched by the UN this week. Data on population, health, education, work, power, violence, poverty.
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Sponsored sleep-out to support Leicester’s homeless
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/14-big-sleep-2019
University of Leicester staff and students will participate in ‘The Big Sleep’ on Thursday 21 March 2019.
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Women’s Resilience to Disasters (WRD) Knowledge Hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/22/womens-resilience-to-disasters-wrd-knowledge-hub/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2022 Launched by UN Women in partnership with the Australian Governmen t this new site aims to spotlight research and resources relating to gender-responsive disaster risk...
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Women’s history month: Europeana online exhibitions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/womens-history-month-europeana-online-exhibitions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 Europeana online exhibitions and blogs covering women’s history themes. The essays feature images of material items from Europe’s national libraries.
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Norwich Women’s Film Weekend: online archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/01/27/norwich-womens-film-weekend-online-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2023 The Norwich Women’s Film Weekend (or NWFW) was a two-day annual event created by Cinewomen that ran for 10 years, from 1979 to 1989, at Cinema City in Norwich.
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First Juno science results supported by Jupiter forecast by Leicester astronomers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/first-juno-science-results-supported-by-jupiter-2018forecast2019-by-leicester-astronomers
New observations about the extreme conditions of Jupiter’s weather and magnetic fields by our astronomers have contributed to the revelations and insights coming from the first close passes of Jupiter by NASA’s Juno mission, announced today.
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Henrik Melin
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/author/hpm5/
Henrik Melin is a post-doc in the Radio and Space Plasma Physics group in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Leicester.
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Leicester celebrates continued success with the Turing Scheme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/turing-scheme-leicester-students
The University of Leicester is proud to announce it has secured over £900,000 further funding through the UK Government’s Turing Scheme.
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James Arthur (Jim) Mackley
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/jim-mackley
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mr Jim Mackley. Jim joined the Department of Genetics as a technician in 1964, and was then Chief Technician in the Department of Biochemistry from 1981 until his retirement.