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• Satellites are making our food more secure and sustainable, says Leicester expert

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/satellites-space-technology-food-sustainable

  Earth observation expert Professor Heiko Balzter speaks as University of Leicester holds Food and Land Use Summit, where Leicester experts demonstrated how the space sector is playing a role in monitoring land use, tracking deforestation, and assessing agricultural...

• Celebrating six decades of research in the Adrian Building and 40 Years of Genetic Fingerprinting – Public Event, October 11th

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/genetics-adrian-richard-iii-dna

  To mark the forthcoming closure of the Adrian Building, the former Department of Genetics, Genomics and Cancer Sciences (GGCS) is hosting a public event on Saturday, October 11th, in Lecture Theatre 2 of the Sir Bob Burgess Building, Welford Road.

• Increasing domestic violence

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/increasing-domestic-violence/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 Two shocking reports published this week.

• Free cash point machines are disappearing

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/free-cash-point-machines-are-disappearing/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 Free ATMs are disappearing. Link provides monthly financial inclusion reports which map numbers and geographical locations of cash machines.

• FGM

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/13/fgm/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 Last week the UK’s first prosecution for female genital mutilation (FGM) failed amid controversy.  A cademics discuss whether the case should have been bought at all.

• Which countries are best for children’s rights?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/14/which-countries-are-best-for-childrens-rights/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2017 International children’s rights foundation KidsRights and Erasmus University, Rotterdam have  recently published the KidsRights Index 2017, a global ranking which charts countries’...

• Leicester Planetary Scientist Shortlisted for the Women of the Future Awards

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/09/23/leicester-planetary-scientist-shortlisted-for-the-women-of-the-future-awards/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 23 September 2021 Enormous congratulations to Dr Beatriz Sánchez-Cano, who is on the shortlist for the 2021 Women of the Future Awards! Beatriz is an Ernest Rutherford Fellow within our Planetary Science...

• Chinese aid to Africa: what are the facts?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/15/chinese-aid-to-africa-what-are-the-facts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2017 China has become  the biggest donor of aid to Africa- read more about the background in this interesting article from the Conversation .

•  Ukraine Conflict Monitor/ACLED Conflict Alert System

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/03/22/ukraine-conflict-monitor-acled-conflict-alert-system/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2023   Ukraine Conflict Monitor  has been expanded and updated by ACLED.

• About the British Heart Foundation Research Accelerator for Precision Medicine

  https://le.ac.uk/bhf-accelerator/about

  The University has received a BHF Accelerator Award of £1 million in funding to establish the research agenda over the next five years, tailoring its focus to precision medicine.