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Glenfield’s Judith is first UK participant in women-only heart surgery study
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/heart-surgery-iwd
The first patient in the UK to take part in a women-only cardiac surgery research trial underwent a life-changing heart operation at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust recently.
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Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation. It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.
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How do you access news?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/01/how-do-you-access-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2015 39 out of 50 of the top US news sites now get more traffic from mobile devices than desktop computers.
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Conference explores challenges facing journalism and politics in the wake of rising global populism
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/conference-explores-challenges-facing-journalism-and-politics-in-the-wake-of-rising-global-populism
The future of journalism and politics was discussed by experts at a ground-breaking conference on Brexit, Trump and the Media at Leicester.
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Security Council Meetings 1946-2020
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/security-council-meetings-1946-2020/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Another resource for those interested in international relations: A list of vetoes and decisions . It has been prepared and maintained by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
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Historic election data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/historic-election-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 For historic elections data see the Elections centre University of Plymouth It provides free access to detailed handbooks of trends and results from 1991-2011 Historic election...
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Number of fact-checking sites worldwide increasing rapidly
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/13/number-of-fact-checking-sites-worldwide-increasing-rapidly/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2018 According to the latest annual report from the Duke Reporters Lab . They found that in 2018 the number has increased by 31 percent.
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Digital Terrorism and Hate online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/digital-terrorism-and-hate-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new report from the Simon Wiesenthal center finds the rise of alt-tech far-right digital websites and platforms.
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University of Leicester rises to five-year high in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/the-world-rankings-2023
The University of Leicester has been ranked among the top 200 universities in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023, and reached its highest position since 2018.
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Breakthrough research to diagnose children with asthma
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/breakthrough-research-to-diagnose-children-with-asthma
A number of studies to better understand asthma – including how to diagnose and monitor the condition in children – will be conducted by Leicester researchers.