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University pledges to offer a hundred Sanctuary Awards to displaced people worldwide
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/distance-learning
Read more about University of Leicester offering one hundred distance learning scholarships to displaced people across the world.
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Leicester scientist helps fine-tune space telescope 1.5million km from home
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/miri-commissioning
A first image from MIRI was released by NASA in April, giving space scientists a glimpse of the instrument’s capabilities. The first science observations using JWST are expected to commence in July.
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Many access news on smartphones
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/many-access-news-on-smartphones/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 According to a number of recent research studies many people are now using their smartphones. A report from the Knight Foundation recently found that , 89% of the U.S.
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World AIDS day 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/world-aids-day-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 World AIDs Day is December 1st. The 2015 campaign urges people to rethink HIV stereotypes.
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Monitoring and Impact Assessment of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/11/monitoring-and-impact-assessment-of-unilateral-coercive-measures-on-the-enjoyment-of-human-rights/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2024 A UN online Tool to monitor the negative impact of sanctions imposed on a country on human rights i that country.
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Embedded
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/16/embedded/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2014 Embedded! Archaeologists and Anthropologists in Modern Landscapes of Conflict Interesting webcasts from a conference held as part of the Engaged Scholarship Workshops...
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How can social media be used in emergencies?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/22/how-can-social-media-be-used-in-emergencies/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2014 The Communication and Complex Emergencies Project is a collaboration between the University of Adelaide’s Applied Communication Collaborative Research Unit (ACCRU) and the Australian...
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Online Privacy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/23/online-privacy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2015 Concerns about online privacy have surfaced in a number of key reports recently.
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Can social media predict election results?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/26/can-social-media-predict-election-results/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 A recent SSRN paper from Cardiff University developed a model using Twitter and considers how it could be applied to the UK 2015 general election.
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Other useful Cold War websites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/other-useful-cold-war-websites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Other useful Cold War websites with primary source documents include: Cold war origin documents from the Wilson Center Digital Archive .