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IMF revamps data portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/imf-revamps-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 The IMF’s new data portal provides streamlined access to international financial data it is easy to explore and has updated API capabilities.
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Trainee medics take first aid skills to the streets
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/trainee-medics-take-first-aid-skills-to-the-streets
A group of 15 medical students from our University working as the Leicester branch of national charity StreetDoctors is set to expand its already successful first aid training and education initiatives over the coming months.
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Diabetes CPD by distance learning
https://le.ac.uk/courses/cpd-diabetes-dl/2025
This is for you if... you want the flexibility of studying by distance learning whilst expanding your knowledge, skills and confidence in diabetes care to improve outcomes in patient care and personal career progression.
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National Trust and University of Leicester launch pioneering film to explore fascinating stories of disability from the Trust’s sites and collections for the first time
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/everywhere-nowhere
Everywhere and Nowhere is a collaboration between the National Trust and the University of Leicester’s Research Centre for Museums and Galleries The collaboration shines a light on ten fascinating stories of disability from collections and sites in the National...
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LEGO: The Anti-Corporate Corporation?*
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/03/05/lego-the-anti-corporate-corporation/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on March 5, 2014 Martin Parker, Professor and Culture and Organisation at the School, underlines the apparent paradox of the popularity of anti-corporate sentiment within contemporary culture.
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Data centres for researchers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/06/data-centres-for-researchers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2016 The Economic and Social Research Council are funding three data centres – the Consumer Data Research Centre https://www.cdrc.ac.
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Quality of Government OECD data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/quality-of-government-oecd-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 QoG OECD Data is compiled by an independent research institute within the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg.
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Gateway to Global Aging Data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/12/01/gateway-to-global-aging-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2023 The Gateway to Global Aging Data : a data and information platform developed by The Program on Global Aging, Health and Policy and The Center for Economic and Social Research which...
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Trade Remedies Data Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/12/05/trade-remedies-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 5, 2022 This new Portal from the World Trade Organization provides a single gateway to comprehensive data on all anti-dumping and countervailing duty actions notified by WTO members.
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The Data Journalism Handbook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/28/the-data-journalism-handbook/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 28, 2014 http://datajournalismhandbook.org/ A free, open-source reference book written after a 48-hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in London. Also available in the library at 070.40285 DAT.