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Expert opinions cover publishing difficulties political rivalries Donald Trump and RRS Boaty McBoatface
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/expert-opinions-cover-the-difficulties-of-being-published-when-covering-hard-to-classify-topics
Professor Martin Parker from the School of Management has written an article for the Times Higher Education about the difficulties of being published when writing about difficult-to-classify topics, such as those of an interdisciplinary nature.
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Nationality, Identity and Belonging:
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/nationality-identity-and-belonging/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 An Oral History of the ‘Windrush Generation’ and their Relationship to the British State, 1948-2018 This is an ongoing University of London project which contains interviews that...
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Comparisons and Connections (part 1)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/03/02/comparisons-and-connections-part-1/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on March 2, 2015 In her last blog (https://staffblogs.le.ac.
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Leicester academic Professor Mark Jobling to chart the evolution of individual identification at Galton Institute conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-academic-professor-mark-jobling-to-chart-the-evolution-of-individual-identification-at-galton-institute-conference
Professor Mark Jobling from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology will be giving a talk at the Galton Institute conference on 15 November - charting the evolution of individual identification from its earliest inception via fingerprints in 1892, through to the...
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Exhibition: Suffragettes and other feminists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/14/exhibition-suffragettes-and-other-feminists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2022 A Stone’s Throw from Westminster, Suffragettes and other Feminists in Camden, is now available online. https://www.camden.gov.
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Harnessing the ‘wisdom of crowds’ can help combat antibiotic over prescription
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/wisdom-of-crowds
A new study has demonstrated that using the ‘wisdom of crowds’ (also known as collective intelligence) of three or more medical prescribers, can improve decisions about antibiotic prescribing and help combat rising levels of antibiotic resistance.
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Shot at dawn in the Great War: Re-evaluating justice in the case of Harry Farr. By Floris Tomasini
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/10/03/shot-at-dawn/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on October 3, 2016 Today’s post looks at a re-evaluation of justice in an emblematic case study; Harry Farr who was shot for cowardice during the Great War.
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Coventry Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/11/22/coventry-archives-2/
A description of the collections from Coventry Archives that have been digitised by the UOSH project.
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Leicester study to improve crop plants
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-study-to-improve-crop-plants
Dr James Higgins (pictured) from the Department of Genetics has been awarded a New Investigator grant (£450,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication.
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Access to Middle East and Islamic resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/15/access-to-middle-east-and-islamic-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 15, 2013 http://amirmideast.blogspot.co.uk/ Useful blog highlighting open access resources in this area. Journals covering all subject areas. Created by USA libraries.