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How do you access news?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/01/how-do-you-access-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2015 39 out of 50 of the top US news sites now get more traffic from mobile devices than desktop computers.
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Global voices advocacy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/global-voices-advocacy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 A report on the internet firewall in China. Surveys the 2013 battle between Chinese netizens and China’s Great Firewall: http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.
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UN Document Digitisation Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/02/un-document-digitisation-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2012 The UN has created a web page http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/digitization_program.htm where you can find out about the progress of its document digitisation programme.
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Open Secrets.org
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/22/open-secrets-org/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2011 http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/index.php From the Center for Responsive Politics. Includes data for the US 2012 presidential elections .
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Citizen Cyberspace
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/01/citizen-cyberspace/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2011 The rise of citizen cyberscience and its impact on professional research http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.
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Global Voices Online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/global-voices-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://globalvoicesonline.org/ has many citizen journalism postings from around the world there is a special section for the Egyptian protests http://globalvoicesonline.
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Indexing the Press Cuttings Books
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/01/22/indexing-the-press-cuttings-books/
Posted by Helen Ward in Library Special Collections on January 22, 2018 Among the items held in the University of Leicester Institutional Archives are a series of Press Cuttings.
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Medical Biosciences (Genetics) MBiolSci
https://le.ac.uk/courses/medical-biosciences-genetics-mbiolsci/2026
Genetics and genetic mechanisms can tell us so much about heredity and evolution. When researched in the context of diseases in a massively outbred human population, genetics leads us to discover better, more personalised diagnosis and treatments of diseases.
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University staff and students to appear in movie
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/do-something-jake
University staff and students are to appear in a locally produced feature film.
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Electronic frailty index will identify older people at risk
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/30-frailty-index
A collaborative study involving Professor Simon Conroy from our Department of Health Sciences has been awarded £550,000 from the NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme to develop the next version of the multi-award winning electronic frailty index (eFI).