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New award for improving agricultural monitoring from Space
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/03/25/new-award-for-improving-agricultural-monitoring-from-space/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 25 March 2020 Leicester physicists have recently been awarded a Met Office Newton grant to monitor vegetation health and stress from Space Food security has always been a major strategic issue related to...
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Where is the Best Place to Grow old?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/09/25/where-is-the-best-place-to-grow-old/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2015 Find out by consulting the Global Agewatch Index 2015 from HelpAge International which ranks 96 nations .
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What are children worried about?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/what-are-children-worried-about/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 The latest annual Good Childhood report from the Children’s Society measures children’s subject well-being and happiness.
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The World Wealth and Income Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/the-world-wealth-income-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Launched in 2017 as a single point of access for statistics on global inequality data , t his great site is managed by an international consortium of economists including Thomas...
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International Equal Pay Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/25/international-equal-pay-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2020 18th September is designated International Equal pay day Some key documents are: Human Rights Council resolution on Equal Pay (2019) ILO Centenary...
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Ageing
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/16/centre-for-ageing-better/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 Centre for Ageing Better, Community of Practice Resource Library A lottery funded evidence based research organisation.
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Happiness (and the effects of Covid-19 on it)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/22/happiness-and-the-effects-of-covid-19-on-it/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2021 The World Happiness Report is a survey of the state of global happiness that ranks over 150 countries by how happy their citizens feel themselves to be.
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Don’t Look Away: No place for exclusion of LGBTI students (UNESCO)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/dont-look-away-no-place-for-exclusion-of-lgbti-students-unesco/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 International LGBTQI Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO) and UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report released findings from research and surveys on the situation of LGBTQI...
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Participants and talks
https://le.ac.uk/miv/workshop-programme/winter-2018-workshop/participants
Learn more about the titles and abstracts of the variety of speakers at the winter 2018 workshop at the University of Granada.
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Legacies of a British penal colony: adivasis in the Andaman Islands
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/12/08/legacies-of-a-british-penal-colony-adivasis-in-the-andaman-islands/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on December 8, 2014 It is an unexpected pleasure to be back in the Andaman Islands for the first time in almost two years.