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• 180 new medics graduate early to join fight against COVID-19

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/medics-graduate

  Medicine students from the University of Leicester will graduate early today, to join the NHS in the fight against coronavirus.

• Leicester team shows how to reduce carbon emissions from agricultural peatland

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-team-shows-how-to-reduce-carbon-emissions-from-agricultural-peatland

  Raising the water table could slow down global warming, boost crop yields, and preserve peat soils according to a new study.

• ACLED Conflict Index 2024

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/12/13/acled-conflict-index-2024/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2024 ACLED Conflict Index 2024 Get reputable data from the team who measure and assess political violence worldwide using indicators based on deadliness, danger to civilians, geographic...

• 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 .

• 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.

• Happiness

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/15/happiness/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2014 Free access to this book from the OECD which provides data on global wellbeing since 1820.  Factors covered include political representation, health and gender equality.

• 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.

• Bloomberg: Studying Equity Volume Patterns for Clues on Price Direction

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/22/bloomberg-studying-equity-volume-patterns-for-clues-on-price-direction/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2013 Global equity markets rallied this month after a contraction in June. Trading volume can indicate whether these price movements will hold.

• 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.

• Bullying

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/10/bullying/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2017 Released recently the UNESCO Global status report on school violence and bullying .