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• Expert opinions cover slum tourism the BBC and Brexit

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/expert-opinions-cover-slum-tourism-the-bbc-and-brexit

  Professor Peter Lunt has written an article discussing how Ofcom may soon regulate the BBC - yet we know it already struggles to treat the public as citizens and not just consumers.

• Catrin Pritchard

  https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/catrin-pritchard

  Catrin received her MA in Biochemistry from Jesus College, Oxford University in 1983, and in 1987 she finished her PhD at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund on mapping of the male determining gene on the human Y chromosome.

• Government funding for project to supply Africa with electricity from waste

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/08-pyropower-nigeria-electricity-waste

  An Earth Observation Innovation team from the University of Leicester is collaborating with PyroGenesys Ltd. and a number of UK and international organisations on a project to generate off-grid electricity for remote rural communities in Africa starting with Nigeria.

• Yemen Conflict Observatory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/23/yemen-conflict-observatory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2024 Yemen Conflict Observatory   A new site created by ACLED and the Yemen Data project. This site offers up to date data dashboards and mappings of war and violence in Yemen.

• Tweeting #OWS

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/05/tweeting-ows/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2012 http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ A great new digital archive from Emory University.  Ten million tweets about Occupy Wall Street have now been collected.

• Enhanced access to data from International Telecommunications Union

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/16/enhanced-access-to-data-from-itu-international-telecommunications-union/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2012 http://www.itu.int/ The ITU collects data on mobile phones, internet use and access worldwide. Its website offers some free statistics.

• COP26: Funding boost for new space mission to monitor carbon

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/microcarb

  The new funding is to complete the build and testing of the satellite, led by Thales Alenia Space at the RAL Space assembly and test facilities on the Harwell Space Cluster, in Oxfordshire, and for NCEO experts at the universities of Leicester and Edinburgh to translate...

• How happy are you? First Annual ONS Experimental Subjective Well-being Results

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/how-happy-are-you-first-annual-ons-experimental-subjective-well-being-results/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in the UK http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/wellbeing/measuring-subjective-wellbeing-in-the-uk/first-annual-ons-experimental-subjective-well-being-results/index.

• Opinion polls world-wide

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/opinion-polls-world-wide/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Eurobarometer: http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/index_en.

• Police.uk

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/11/police-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 11, 2011 http://www.police.uk/ The much hyped crimes maps of the UK website which was launched this week.