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  • World refugee day 2016

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/world-refugee-day-2016/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 Find out why we need to support refugees by consulting the UNHCR Global Trends report  2015. More than 65.

  • How much fake news is there?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/30/how-much-fake-news-is-there/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 30, 2018 A frightening new report from the Oxford Internet institute has a Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation.

  • Are millennial workers ‘lazy’ ‘digital addicts’?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/are-millennial-workers-lazy-digital-addicts/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 These are some of the myths challenged by the  IBM global study of over 1,700 workers born between 1980-1993.

  • What is the world’s most influential think tank?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/what-is-the-worlds-most-influential-think-tank/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 Find out by checking the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report released by the University of Pennsylvania .

  • Health Databases from WHO

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/27/health-databases-from-who/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 27, 2013 WHO Europe new statistical database- HlthRes-DB Contains nearly 200 indicators on human and technical resources for health covering 53 states from WHO Europe.

  • Breakthrough in fuel cell recycling turns ‘forever chemicals’ into renewable resources

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/breakthrough-fuel-cell-recycling-forever-chemicals-renewable

    University of Leicester scientists develop technique using soundwaves to separate materials in fuel cells in seconds

  • Air pollution speeds up ageing of the lungs and increases chronic lung disease risk

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/09-air-pollution-lung-function-copd

    A study of more than 300,000 people has found that exposure to outdoor air pollution is linked to decreased lung function and an increased risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

  • Will the government’s AI action plan be a success?

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/artificial-intelligence

    University of Leicester expert comments on the UK government's action plan to boost its role in developing and deploying artificial intelligence.

  • Pioneering African mental health study receives millions in funding from Wellcome

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/neet

    A Wellcome-funded study led by the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the University of Leicester and others, aims to identify predictors of depression among NEET youth in Africa.

  • Drying Congo peatlands threaten to accelerate climate change

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/congo-cop27

    Study reveals how the Congo peatlands changed from being a major store of carbon to a source of damaging carbon dioxide emissions.

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