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• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/98/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Students awaken the science of Star Wars

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/students-awaken-the-science-of-star-wars

  Could a lightsaber really work? What would hyperspace travel look like? And how strong would a deflector shield need to be to fend off interstellar attacks? These are all questions that Star Wars fans have been asking for decades, and now that The Force Awakens has been...

• Ancient chimpanzee Adam lived over one million years ago

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/ancient-chimpanzee-2018adam2019-lived-over-one-million-years-ago

  Chimpanzees have an ancient common ancestor – or genetic ‘Adam’ - that lived over one million years ago, according to a research team led by Professor Mark Jobling from the Department of Genetics.

• New academy aims to change nature of health care for older people

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/new-academy-aims-to-change-nature-of-health-care-for-older-people

  A new academy has been set up in Leicester that hopes to tackle the challenges of ageing and change the nature of health care for older people.

• Radiotopia launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/14/radiotopia-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2014 PRX have launched Radiotopia: http://www.radiotopia.fm/  a new podcast network with support from the Knight Foundation.

• The World of RePEc

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/24/the-world-of-repec/

  Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 24, 2017 A new paper explores the world of  RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) the major database of economics papers.

• European Data Portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/european-data-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Launched this month, a new resource developed by the European Commission offering free access to over 240,000 datasets from 28 European Nations.

• Working household poverty is worse

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/working-household-poverty-is-worse/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 According to the latest annual poverty and social exclusion report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which provides data and analysis for the last  5 years .

• Open the Door: social science research for development and a sustainable future

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/22/open-the-door-social-science-research-for-development-and-a-sustainable-future/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2015 New publication from the European Commission .  Download the full text in PDF from the website.

• Gender statistics database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/gender-statistics-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) (an autonomous body of the European Union) has just launched a new gender statistics database for researchers which enables easy comparisons...