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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.
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Pew Internet and American Life
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/06/17/pew-internet-and-american-life/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2011 http://www.pewinternet.org/ A project which provides free access to reports and surveys on the impact of the Internet, Web 2.0 and associated technology on American life.
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How reading increases your life expectancy by 26 years!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/how-reading-increases-your-life-expectancy-by-26-years/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 World Book day was celebrated on Thursday What are the benefits of reading? The Reading Agency quotes a number of studies on economic, health and well-being and educational impacts...
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PingER – how bad is the Internet in Africa?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/08/pinger-how-bad-is-the-internet-in-africa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2013 The PingER (Ping End-to-end Reporting) Internet End-to-end Performance Measurement (IEPM) project monitors performance of Internet links from over 700 sites in 160 nations.
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Over £600,000 for University of Leicester to shrink AI algorithms for smarter spacecraft
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/shrinking-ai-spacecraft
Multidisciplinary team from University of Leicester receives £690,000 funding from UK Space Agency and aims to develop and demonstrate streamlined machine learning algorithms suitable for limited spacecraft power and computing performance
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It’s a group task…be a part of the group!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/careerdevelopmentservice/2015/10/21/group-interviews/
Posted by Marie Muir in Career Development Service on October 21, 2015 You have conquered many hurdles; application forms, covering letters and telephone interviews and now you’re here here: the Assessment Centre.
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Gender pay gap
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/22/gender-pay-gap/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2024 20th November 2024 is equal pay day, the day on which it is calculated that British women stop being paid compared to men so effectively there is a gap of over 5 weeks...
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US Elections 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/02/us-elections-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2016 Political Bots: are they manipulating the USA Presidential elections? An interesting project on digital politics and algorithms which is considering how the use of automated...
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19th July 2013 Sol 338
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/07/19/19th-july-2013-sol-338/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 19, 2013 The first results of the atmospheric analyses have been published this week in Science Magazine.
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Digital Education Research Archive (DERA)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/03/22/digital-education-research-archive-dera/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2011 http://dera.ioe.ac.uk DERA is a digital archive of documents published electronically by government and related bodies in the area of education.