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Leicester leads major breakthrough in asbestos linked cancer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/confirm
A University of Leicester led team has made a major breakthrough in treating mesothelioma, an aggressive form of cancer linked to breathing in asbestos, which could help add years to patients’ lives.
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Cuts and austerity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/cuts-and-austerity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 What do the British public think of the cuts and austerity policy? Latest research from IPSO Mori shows 43% think public services are worse than 5 years ago but only 23% say they have...
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Secrets of the Museum
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/19/secrets-of-the-museum/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 19, 2024 The BBC recently repeated the 2021 series of Secrets of the Museum, a behind-the-scenes look at the work of the conservators and curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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AI and news media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/14/ai-and-news-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2024 What does the public in 6 countries think of AI usage in the news? Reuters Institute for Journalism has surveyed awareness and use of generative AI by members of the public in six...
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Financial Secrecy Index launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/financial-secrecy-index-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 Which jurisdictions have the most secret offshore tax havens? Find out in the latest annual ranking from the Tax Justice Network which covers transparency and accountability .
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The UK Insecure Work Index 2024
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/the-uk-insecure-work-index-2024/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 The latest annual index from the Work Foundation shows that, in 2023, an estimated 6.8 million people (21.4%) were in severely insecure work, an increase of 500,000 from 2022.
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League of Nations Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/06/league-of-nations-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 6, 2022 The massive project to digitise the entire League of Nations Archives is now complete. Digitisations are now available when you search the UN Archives catalogue https://archives.ungeneva.
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High Streets Recovery Tracker
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/06/high-streets-recovery-tracker/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 6, 2020 High Streets Recovery Tracker Launched by the Centre for Cities to provide economic data on the recovery from the lock-down of Britain’s largest cities and towns.
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Operational research resources for development
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/operational-research-resources-for-development/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) has created a Wikipedia-type page of free resources for development workers and developing countries to read and...
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Who’s downloading pirated papers?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/whos-downloading-pirated-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Fascinating article from Science magazine which concludes that students and researchers from around the world are. It focuses upon downloads from SCI-HUB.