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  • The Platform recordings – trains, planes, automobiles and volunteers.

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/28/the-platform-recordings-trains-planes-automobiles-and-volunteers/

    Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on January 28, 2020   In 1974 John Kirby and Geoff Smith started ‘Platform’, a BBC Radio Leicester series about transport.

  • BAME academics are “chronically absent”, says Leicester Vice-Chancellor

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/bame-scholarships

    Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) academics are “chronically absent” in higher education, the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Leicester Professor Nishan Canagarajah, has said. His comments come as the University of Leicester today launches an £1.

  • Glossary of UN terms

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/glossary-of-un-terms/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 For those who find the abbreviations used by the UN and its agencies difficult to understand  t ry the latest free app which covers common acronyms and a glossary of terms.

  • Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 11 19 August

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-11-19-august

    Jack Newsinger from the Department of Media and Communication has written an article for The Conversation about labour leader candidate Jeremy Corbyn's art policy.

  • ITVs Code of a Killer concludes tonight

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/itv2019s-2018code-of-a-killer2019-concludes-tonight

    The concluding episode of the two-part ITV fictional drama ‘Code of a Killer’, based on Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys’s discovery of DNA fingerprinting at the University of Leicester and its first use in a murder enquiry, will air tonight (13 April) from 9pm.

  • 24% of students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds have experience racial harassment in UK universitie

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/24-of-students-from-ethnic-minority-backgrounds-have-experience-racial-harassment-in-uk-universities/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 Shocking new report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission has these findings. Get the methodology and facts by downloading the report.

  • Media use of Images

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/media-use-of-images/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 BagNews provides useful discussion between photojournalists and researchers on the framing of particular events using photographs.

  • US Treasury Reporting Rates of Exchange: 1956-2005

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/26/treasury-reporting-rates-of-exchange-1956-2005/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2012 Free digitized US Treasury Library materials: the Treasury Reporting Rates of Exchange, 1956-2005, which list the exchange rates of foreign currencies based on the dollar, are now...

  • Pop singer honoured by University of Leicester for his museums heritage work

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/david

    Pop vocalist, essayist and art historian, David McAlmont, has been honoured by University of Leicester during a ceremony today (Friday 19 July).

  • Ill Effects

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/ill-effects/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 A bi-weekly research-informed series on media “influences” hosted by academics Ben Litherland and Richard McCulloch.

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