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• Cities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/cities-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014  Cities of Opportunity   Interesting new report on urban demographics from PriceWaterHouse Cooper.  Covers 30 major cities worldwide.

• Soldier magazine archive online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/soldier-magazine-archive-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 80-year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, Soldier , has been digitised and is now available online for free.

• Digital Terrorism and Hate Report

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/16/digital-terrorism-and-hate-report/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2022 The Simon Wiesenthal Center has released its 2022 annual   Digital Terrorism and Hate Report    It includes coverage of homophobia and transphobia and fake news...

• Peacekeeping Resource Hub

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/24/peacekeeping-resource-hub/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2023 The official UN website on peacekeeping now has an improved design.

• World University rankings: what is their worth?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/19/world-university-rankings-what-is-their-worth/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 19, 2020 Interesting findings from an ARMA committee  investigating some of the most well known and influential rankings of universities:  ARWU ,  THE WR ,  QS, ...

• 8 people own the same wealth as 50% of the world’s population

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/8-people-own-the-same-wealth-as-50-of-the-worlds-population/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 This week the latest annual meeting of the World Economic Forum took place at Davos.

• Canadian Gender Gap tracker launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/canadian-gender-gap-tracker-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 Informed Opinions has produced the  Gender Gap Tracker  in partnership with Simon Fraser University.

• Sharp Power Research Portal…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/12/10/sharp-power-research-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2021 …has been created by the International Forum for Democratic Studies.

• Japanese Princess attends graduation ceremony

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/japanese-princess-to-attend-graduation-ceremony

  Our University is delighted to announce that Princess Mako of Akishino is returning to Leicester in order to be awarded her postgraduate degree in Museum Studies.

• Professor Paul Baines becomes the new Mayor of Charnwood

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/paul-baines-charnwood-mayor

  Paul Baines, Professor of Political Marketing at the University of Leicester and councillor for Anstey, has been chosen as the new Mayor of Charnwood. The new Mayor was sworn in as the 48th first citizen of the borough at the Council’s Annual Meeting on Monday 17 May 2021.