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Meridian Space Command moves to Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/meridian-spl
Meridian Space Command has moved to the University of Leicester’s pioneering £100 million science and innovation park to capitalise on Space Park Leicester’s state-of-the-art facilities
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University of Leicester film wins prestigious Learning On Screen Award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/harms-of-hate
University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies has won a Learning On Screen Award 2024 for its short film, Revisiting the Harms of Hate.
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The story of skeletons
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/the-story-of-skeletons
What links the narwhal’s tusk, ancient trilobites, Richard III (and his drinking habits), tumbleweed, an argonaut, and the outstretched fourth finger of a pterosaur? They are among the cast of characters that feature in a new book by University of Leicester professors Jan...
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PhD researchers tackle social isolation and loneliness in the city
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/19-wiscp-awareness-week
Earlier this year, our Doctoral College was approached by the West Indian Senior Citizens Project (WISCP), asking if some of our doctoral and early career researchers would present their findings as part of the WISCP Awareness and Wellbeing Week.
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English Football: a Social History MOOC
https://le.ac.uk/courses/mooc-english-football/2020
This is for you if... you want to find out more about the history, sociology and politics of football with a focus on Leicester City FC.
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https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/24/5038/
Africana Historic Postcard Collection. New from the Library of Congress, more than 1,500 digitised photograph postcards from European colonial territories from the 1890s – 1960s. Most before 1930. Most are photos from colonial administrators and European missionaries.
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Social Entrepreneurship
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/07/social-entrepreneurship/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 7, 2014 A new standard to measure social impact is now available from the EU.
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The most violent cities (Latin America, UK and Global)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/10/the-most-violent-cities-latin-america-uk-and-global/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2017 Chioda, Laura. 2017. Stop the Violence in Latin America : A Look at Prevention from Cradle to Adulthood. Latin American Development Forum;. Washington, DC: World Bank.
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Citing datasets
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/11/citing-datasets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2011 http://www.dcc.ac.uk/news/new-dcc-guide-citing-datasets Download the 12 page guide which will help researchers cite datasets.
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Anti-bullying
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/anti-bullying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 R ecent research from the TUC from a YouGov survey recorded nearly one third of people who responded had suffered bullying.