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• 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.

• National Archives: Olympic record

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/21/national-archives-olympic-record/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 21, 2012 http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/olympics/ A specialist section of pages created by the National archives to highlight their Olympic and Paralympic games holdings.

• Human Rights

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/01/human-rights/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 1, 2013 20 years OHCHR (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) A new official website to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this major UN agency . It includes news and links to key achievements.

• Cycling study transforms heart health of dialysis patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/cycle-hd

  Cycling at moderate intensity during dialysis could drastically improve the heart health of patients with kidney failure and result in significant savings for the NHS, according to new research by the University of Leicester supported by the charity Kidney Research UK and...

• Study suggests physical activity and functional ability increase after weight loss surgery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/study-suggests-physical-activity-and-functional-ability-increase-after-weight-loss-surgery

  People who have their stomach size surgically reduced move around more and easier after weight loss surgery, a study led by Leicester researchers has found.

• Town Commemorates Convicts, by Minako Sakata

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/09/29/town-commemorate-convicts-by-minako-sakata/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on September 29, 2014 At the end of August, I visited Tsukigata, a small town in Hokkaido where the Kabato Central Prison was located from 1881 to 1919.

• Studying as a mature student: David's story

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/study/undergraduate/mature-student-stories

  "I can still remember filling in my personal statement and pausing only briefly to reflect on why I wanted to read archaeology at Leicester. "It was a long-standing itch that needed scratching" was how I answered that one.

• English language requirements for subjects requiring the equivalent to IELTS 6.5

  https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/entry-reqs/eng-lang-reqs/ielts-65

  Find out the equivalent to an IELTS score of 6.5 if you’ve taken a different English language test or qualification.