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• Are economists in touch with ordinary voters?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/are-economists-in-touch-with-ordinary-voters/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Find out by reading the results of this interesting recent survey from the Centre for Macroeconomics.  It also covers Brexit- why did votes ignore the advice of economists.

• World Press Freedom Day…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/10/world-press-freedom-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2013 … was celebrated on the 3rd May The official website has details of this year’s events, messages and full text UN documents associated with freedom of speech.

• Joseph Stiglitz and Central Banks

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/01/15/joseph-stiglitz-and-central-banks/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 15, 2013 Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, stated that central banks have too much financial power to remain as unelected bodies.

• Leicester geologists publish new book on exquisitely preserved fossil animals from 500 million years ago

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/leicester-geologists-publish-new-book-on-exquisitely-preserved-fossil-animals-from-500-million-years-ago

  Together with colleagues from Yunnan University, Oxford University and The Natural History Museum, palaeontologists Mark Williams, Sarah Gabbott, David Siveter and Mark Purnell from our Department of Geology have published a striking new book illustrating exceptionally...

• World Bank’s Open Budgets portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/10/world-banks-open-budgets-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 10, 2014 World Bank’s Open Budgets portal  aims to provide a one-stop shop to locate national and sub-national regional  budget economic data from about 40 nations involved in the...

• Two new Chinese Internet archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/12/09/two-new-chinese-internet-archives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 9, 2013 …from the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, UCLA .  Both capture snapshots of chinese websites periodically since 2012, preserving the content and can be searched by keyword.

• Leicester Leads the Way Geodata Event for Business

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-leads-the-way-geodata-event-for-business

  On 12 March the University's IRSA project (part funded by the ERDF) organised a free event for local business and stakeholders to get across the importance of geographical data within the current trending Big Data agenda.

• Brexit Statutory Instruments Dashboard

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/26/brexit-statutory-instruments-dashboard/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2018 Westminster Lens A new tool launched by the Hansard Society . It aims to monitor how many Brexit SIs are being laid before Parliament each week.

• Expert opinions cover Airbnb and Rio the Turkish coup Jupiters Great Red Spot the refugee crisis and consumer justice

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-opinions-cover-airbnb-and-rio-the-turkish-coup-and-jupiters-great-red-spot

  Henrik Melin from the Department of Physics and Astronomy has written a Staff Blog discussing the upper atmosphere of Jupiter.

• Cracking the complexities of metal processing

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/cracking-the-complexities-of-metal-processing

  The Royal Academy of Engineering has appointed Professor Hongbiao Dong to a five-year Research Chair at our University, with the aim of developing a step change in metal processing.