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Skin swabs could detect COVID-19
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/skin-swabs
COVID-19 could be detected through non-invasive skin swab samples, new research published by the Universities of Leicester, Surrey and Manchester has revealed today.
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Study shows how to better prepare medical students to provide compassionate care
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/medical-students-stoneygate-empathy-centre
A new study describes the creation of a curriculum which embeds empathic communication skills throughout undergraduate education for medical students.
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Europe-wide data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/europe-wide-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 T he European Data portal has now passed from Beta to permanence. You can now use it to quickly find news and the latest open data from EU nations.
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The Social Welfare History Image Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/30/the-social-welfare-history-image-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 30, 2017 This great site provides free access to a wealth of images drawn from the collections of VCU Libraries, Union Presbyterian Seminary Library, Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives,...
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How diverse are UK journalists?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/how-diverse-are-uk-journalists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Find out by reading the results of a survey of 7,000 released this week by Reuters Institute. It is based on a survey of 700 journalists conducted in December 2015.
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WTO Tariff & Trade Data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/04/11/wto-tariff-trade-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2025 Recently launched, the WTO Tariff & Trade Data is an online platform providing enhanced access to official tariff and trade figures for over 150 economies.
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theHive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/18/thehive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2013 World Bank’s theHive This site has been in beta for a while but is developing well. Register for free to get the most benefits.
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Digital Incivility
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/digital-incivility/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 The Microsoft Digital Civility Index (DCI) Microsoft has been measuring online behaviour and has found a worrying increase of bad behaviour and digital incivility over the last 4 years.
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Bloomberg: a merger
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/28/bloomberg-a-merger/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2013 The recently merged mining and commodity trading company Glencore Xstrata reported a $7.7billion write-down of assets previously owned by Xstrata.
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New Social Science open access archive launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/22/new-social-science-open-access-archive-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2016 SocArXiv , being developed in association with Center for Open Science and an international research body of advisors will provide free open access to social science research papers .