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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.

• 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 Summer Intern – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2021/09/05/aysha-scans-the-summer-intern/

  Our Summer Intern, Aysha, recounts her time on the Arch-I-Scan Project.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 22nd March was World Water Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/22nd-march-was-world-water-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 The official website has details on this year’s theme water and work.  It includes a link to the full text of the 2016 UN World Water Development Report.

• 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.

• 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.

• What is distance learning?

  https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/what-they-are/distance-learning

  Our distance learning programmes offer a flexible way to study for a University of Leicester research degree wherever you are in the world.