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• Easter for social scientists

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/17/easter-for-social-scientists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2019 Just for fun here are some interesting research related facts on Easter chocolate! This infographic from Statista  has some basic facts on who celebrates Easter and what they do.

• Cities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/cities-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014  Cities of Opportunity   Interesting new report on urban demographics from PriceWaterHouse Cooper.  Covers 30 major cities worldwide.

• Opportunity to study and work in Hong Kong

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/study/postgraduate/study-in-hong-kong

  The University of Leicester School of Business offers an exciting partnership with Lingnan University, Hong Kong allowing you to study in two cities, gain two degrees and numerous international work opportunities.

• World Food Day (16th October)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/18/world-food-day-16th-october/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2019 See the  FAO official website  for details of this year’s theme on healthy diet.

• The schoolboy sketches of John Leech

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/05/the-schoolboy-sketches-of-john-leech/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2017 The artist and illustrator John Leech, who became one of the foremost contributors to Punch and created the artwork for some of Dickens’ most popular works, notably A Christmas Carol , was born in 1817...

• New targeted oral treatments for severe asthma to be studied

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/18-targeted-oral-treatments-for-severe-asthma

  A £2.68 million study to investigate the effective use of antibiotics to treat certain types of severe asthma is being spearheaded by researchers in Leicester.

• Study routes

  https://le.ac.uk/education/study/pgce/routes

  Find out about the routes available when training to be a teacher with the University of Leicester. You can apply to our University-led courses or to one of our School Direct or School-Centred Initial Teacher Training partners.

• Where is the riskiest place to live?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/where-is-the-riskiest-place-to-live/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 Download the latest world ranking from United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security.  It considers risk from extreme natural events and ranks 117 nations.

• 20 years of the National Minimum Wage

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/08/20-years-of-the-national-minimum-wage/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2019 20 years of the National Minimum Wage – what has been the impact? On 1 April 1999  the National Minimum Wage  (NMW) was introduced in the UK – a £3.

• Cybersecurity UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/cybersecurity-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 Recently the UK government revealed research on the most hacked passwords.  You can download the top 100,000 from the  National Cyber research centre.