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River research reveals scale of macroplastic pollution
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/river-plastic
Plastic pollution clogs river systems for considerably longer than previously thought, new research from the University of Leicester shows.
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Is your bank under stress?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/is-your-bank-under-stress/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Read the latest report from the Bank of England for 2015 – the tests ‘assess the resilience of UK banks and building societies to a deterioration in global economic conditions.
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Refugee use of mobile phones
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/refugee-use-of-mobile-phones/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 T he Open University has released a research report on how refugees use smartphones. It was led by Prof. Marie Gillespie and was carried out in partnership with France Medias Monde.
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Colin Hyde: Page 4
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/colin_hyde/page/4/
Colin Hyde manages the East Midlands Oral History Archive, based in Special Collections.
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Diversity in HE. Or not…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/diversity-in-he-or-not/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Lies, damned lies and statistics on widening access to Russell Group universities Interesting article in the latest issue of Radical Statistic by Vikki Boliver which criticises the...
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ACLED-Religion
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/acled-religion/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 ACLED-Religion A new project collecting data on religious repression, disorder and violence. Coverage begins at the end of January 2021.
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New LGBT Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/22/new-lgbt-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2016 U.S. Homophile Internationalism is a new online exhibit which can be found on the Outhistory.org website . The website states “This archive and exhibit explores U.S.
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Gender, race and money in politics database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/12/gender-race-and-money-in-politics-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 12, 2019 The Center for Responsive Politics has just released a new database which enables researchers to explore the interaction between gender and race in US campaign funding.
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Mapping Segregation: Google Maps and the Human Rights of Palestinians
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/05/mapping-segregation-google-maps-and-the-human-rights-of-palestinians/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 Interesting report by 7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement which argues that the boundaries and names used on Google Maps favour the cause of the Israeli government in the...
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1.1 million abusive tweets sent to women in 2017
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/04/1-1-million-abusive-tweets-sent-to-women-in-2017/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 4, 2019 …according to large-scale research undertaken by Amnesty International and Element AI , a global artificial intelligence software product company.