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Advertisements from Exponent women’s newspaper
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/08/10/advertisements-from-exponent-womens-newspaper/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 10, 2021 A historic database of advertisements from Woman’s Exponent newspaper from 1872-1914, made available free online from Brigham Young University’s Harold B.
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Smart phone usage USA 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/15/smart-phone-usage-usa-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2015 According to the Pew Research Center, nearly two thirds of Americans now depend on their smart phones for daily life. Download the Pew survey results for the full data.
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Wellbeing among children and young people
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/10/11/wellbeing-among-children-and-young-people/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2021 Measures bank for Children and Young Peoples Wellbeing What Works Centre for Wellbeing has a developed a metrics framework to measure the subjective wellbeing of children and...
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Better Life Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/better-life-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014 2014 Better Life Index released by OECD This annual survey of OECD countries seek to answer the question “What do people want from life?” It has been in operation since 2011.
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New portrait of Sir David Attenborough revealed in city
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/new-portrait-of-sir-david-attenborough-revealed-in-city
A stunning new portrait of Leicester honorary graduate and Distinguished Honorary Fellow Sir David Attenborough at Leicester’s New Walk Museum has been revealed by the man himself.
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Researcher receives top award for work on meteorites and Martian geology
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/researcher-award-meteorites-mars-geology
PhD student Francesca Willcocks' research has included the Winchcombe meteorite, the exploration of Gale Crater by NASA’s Curiosity Rover and preparations for Mars Sample Return
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Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms, study suggests
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/peatlands-will-store-more-carbon-as-planet-warms-study-suggests
Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms, study suggests Photograph of a peat field|Leicester scientist part of international study into effects of global warming on peatlands Global warming will cause peatlands to absorb more carbon – but the effect will weaken as...
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International postgraduate students
https://le.ac.uk/geology/study/research-degrees/international-postgraduate
Geology at the University of Leicester has a thriving community of graduate students from the UK and overseas. If you are an international student considering campus-based graduate courses in Geology, find out more about our research degrees and how to apply.
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Workshops led by Tribe Sankofa
https://le.ac.uk/anglophone-caribbean/outputs/tribe-sankofa-workshops
Description of youth performing arts workshops led by Tribe Sankofa for the AHRC-funded collaborative project 'Representing Gender-Based Violence: Literature, Performance and Activism in the Anglophone Caribbean'.
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Targeting toxins
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/targeting-toxins
In 2015, a team from our Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation used X-ray crystallography to determine the molecular structure of pneumolysin.