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Direction of AI Innovation in the UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/direction-of-ai-innovation-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 This report from Institute for Public Policy Research outlines the AI innovation landscape in the UK to determine which type of AI deployment is and is not currently taking place.
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Researchers use NASA’s Webb to map weather of planet 280 light-years away
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/clouds-wasp-43b
Atmospheric modelling led in part by University of Leicester reveals true extent of clouds on distant world reveals WASP-43 b is cloudy on the nightside but mostly clear on the dayside, with equatorial winds howling around the planet at 5,000 miles per hour
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Pick up the pace! New study finds slow walkers four times more likely to die from Covid-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/slow-walk-covid
Slow walkers are almost four times more likely to die from COVID-19 and have over twice the risk of contracting a severe version of the virus, according to a team of researchers from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre led by...
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Who owned the Wicked Bible?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/23/who-owned-the-wicked-bible/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on October 23, 2015 It’s been reported in the news this week that a copy of the so called “Wicked Bible” is to be auctioned at Bonhams in November.
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EU referendum where do Eurosceptics live?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/eu-referendum-where-do-eurosceptics-live/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 YouGov this week revealed the 10 most Eurosceptic and EU friendly parts of the UK .
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Admin, Conference, and Website, Oh My!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/04/22/admin-conference-and-website-oh-my/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on April 22, 2015 In the year since I joined The Carceral Archipelago, it has been a pleasure to support the novel and extensive research being conducted by the project’s members.
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Are economists in touch with ordinary voters?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/are-economists-in-touch-with-ordinary-voters/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Find out by reading the results of this interesting recent survey from the Centre for Macroeconomics. It also covers Brexit- why did votes ignore the advice of economists.
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Home and Away in Anglo Saxon England
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-impact-of-diasporas-on-the-making-of-britain/the-diasporas-projects/home-and-away-in-anglo-saxon-england
Academic advisors Dr Richard Jones Professor Jo Story Dr Morn Capper Diasporas create environments within which people are not only forced to create new homes but to think deeply about the homes they have abandoned.
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Watch Leicester academic address EU Select Committee inquiry on the impact of Brexit on Gibraltar
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/watch-leicester-academic-address-eu-select-committee-inquiry-on-the-impact-of-brexit-on-gibraltar
University academic Dr Chris Grocott, from the School of Business, presented evidence to the House of Lords EU Select Committee on the 24 January regarding the unique position of Gibraltar in the wake of the EU Referendum.
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AGORA (AI GOvernance and Regulatory Archive)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/agora-ai-governance-and-regulatory-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 ETO AGORA (AI GOvernance and Regulatory Archive) Maintained by the Emerging Technology Observatory (ETO (a project of the Center for Security and Emerging...