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Leicester records a good set of results in Guardian subject tables
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/guardian-tables
Several subjects at the University of Leicester recorded good results in the Guardian University Guide 2023 rankings.
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Leicester space pioneers return to unveil new Space Research Centre
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/04/30/leicester-space-pioneers-return-to-unveil-new-space-research-centre/
Two of Leicester’s first space scientists have returned to open the region’s state-of-the-art Space Research Centre, more than 60 years on.
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Expedition 347: Paleoenvironmental evolution of the Baltic Sea Basin through the last glacial cycle
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2012-13/baltic-sea
September 2013 – November 2013 The aim of Expedition 347 is to explore the environmental changes in the Baltic Sea over the last 140,000 years and to acquire the most complete possible record of the paleoceanographic and microbiological history preserved within the sediments...
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Center for Women and Politics, Rutgers University
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/16/center-for-women-and-politics-rutgers-university/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2012 http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/ Great starting point for finding academic information on Gender and the presidential elections.
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US Election Advertising
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/us-election-advertising/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 Electad: http://electad.com/ An independent site which claims that it posts all examples from the different campaigns online. The site also indexes polls, tweets and interviews.
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Occupy Wall Street protest site
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/occupy-wall-street-protest-site/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://occupywallst.org/ This website is a good example of the Internet being used to organise protests. The website includes user generated maps, video streams and organisers materials.
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British Council film collection online: British Social History
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/25/british-council-film-collection-now-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2012 http://film.britishcouncil.org/british-council-film-collection Free access to a historic archive of 120 films made during the 1940s which focussed upon how Britain lived and worked.
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Gender equality data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/03/gender-equality-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2012 World Bank: http://datatopics.worldbank.org/gender/ United Nations Commission for Europe statistics database: section on men and women in Europe http://www.unece.
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State of the union 2013
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/15/state-of-the-union-2013/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 15, 2013 The Brookings Institution provided coverage of the event: http://www.brookings.edu/research/topics/state-of-the-union?cid=em_sotualert021113 Its Facebook page https://www.facebook.
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2023
https://le.ac.uk/sustainable-materials-processing/publications/2023
Publications from the year 2023.