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New research reveals the man behind Samuel Pepys’s love for portraits
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/27-samuel-pepys-portraits
Samuel Pepys, the Restoration diarist who meticulously documented his life in 1660s London, also documented himself in other ways – through portraits.
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Dr. Naomi Rowe-Gurney on taking a Leicester PhD to NASA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/08/05/dr-naomi-rowe-gurney-on-taking-a-leicester-phd-to-nasa/
A five-year break in China, a worldwide pandemic, and delays to the most complex space telescope ever built: none of these were enough to stop Naomi Rowe-Gurney breaking new ground to complete her PhD at Leicester and land a dream job with NASA.
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Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 A new report from think tank Rand describes the building of the database which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring,...
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NATO duty map
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/19/nato-duty-map/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2014 NATO on Duty A new official interactive map has been launched by NATO based on Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) software. Find out about current missions and partnerships.
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Other useful Cold War websites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/other-useful-cold-war-websites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Other useful Cold War websites with primary source documents include: Cold war origin documents from the Wilson Center Digital Archive .
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Molecular and Cell Biology student complaints procedure
https://le.ac.uk/mcb/about/contact-us/student-complaints
View the student complaints procedure for Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Leicester. We welcome feedback on how we are doing and understand that occasionally something can go wrong or you may not be satisfied with an aspect of your experience.
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The BAME awarding gap: what we know, what we don’t know, and how we might respond
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2020/01/31/the-bame-awarding-gap-what-we-know-what-we-dont-know-and-how-we-might-respond/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on January 31, 2020 There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear.
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University of Leicester partners with Bluesky International to revolutionise tree mapping technology
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/partner-bluesky-international-revolutionise-tree-mapping-technology
A new Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) will enhance Bluesky’s National Tree Map
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The IPPO Living Map: a searchable database of evidence on the social impacts of COVID-19
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/04/15/the-ippo-living-map-a-searchable-database-of-evidence-on-the-social-impacts-of-covid-19/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2021 Just launched, a searchable international database of systematic reviews of research about the social impacts of COVID-19.
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Gardening the write way – Tim becomes Leicester beauty spot’s first poet in residence
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/tim-relf
A writer will be adding to his growing reputation after being appointed the first-ever poet in residence at the University of Leicester’s Botanic Garden.