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Youth and Media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2010/10/08/new-web-resource-youth-and-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 8, 2010 Youth and Media project http://youthandmedia.org/ A major interdisciplinary project headed by the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St.
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Pioneering centre is making a difference one year after officially opening
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/phage-anniversary
A pioneering new centre at the University of Leicester which studies bacteriophages to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria is celebrating its one-year anniversary
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Hubble captures vivid auroras in Jupiter’s atmosphere
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/30/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on June 30, 2016 Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere — on the poles of the largest planet in the Solar System,...
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Students calculate how much of the Amazon would be required to print the Internet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/students-calculate-how-much-of-the-amazon-would-be-required-to-print-the-internet
Students from the The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science have calculated how much paper would be required to physically print the Internet as we know it - and have worked out that despite the Internet’s enormous size less than 1 per cent of the Amazon rainforest’s...
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Our services and expertise
https://le.ac.uk/lctu/services-expertise
At LCTU we can provide specialist input in the following areas: trial development and grant submission; bespoke database solutions and IT, trial conduct and management, quality management and statistical analysis.
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Donald Trump – Museums in the face of hate
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/01/30/donald-trump-museums-in-the-face-of-hate/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on January 30, 2017 A couple of weeks ago on Friday was one of the happiest days in our School calendar: Graduation Day.
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Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation. It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.
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Local skills shortages data tool
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/11/local-skills-shortages-data-tool/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2024 The Office for National Statistics has released an interactive tool allowing the user to look at demand for specific job roles in a local area and examine whether census and...
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How do you access news?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/01/how-do-you-access-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2015 39 out of 50 of the top US news sites now get more traffic from mobile devices than desktop computers.
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Alternatives to Wikileaks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/alternatives-to-wikileaks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 Wikileaks is widely known as a portal where whistleblowers can securely upload classified information. Recently a number of newspapers have created their own systems.