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Local democracy in peril, warns Leicester academic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/local-democracy
The threat to local democracy in the UK is the subject of a video interview with a University of Leicester academic on a top UK politics website. Tor Clark, a former newspaper editor and political journalist and now Associate Professor in Journalism, was interviewed by Politics.
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Law expert shares in €2.79 million grant for irregular migration research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/irregular-migration
A University of Leicester expert on migrants’ rights and immigration law is a member of an international consortium granted €2.79 million in Horizon Europe funding for a three-year project on Measuring Irregular Migration and related Policies (MIrreM).
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Alternatives to Wikileaks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/alternatives-to-wikileaks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 Wikileaks is widely known as a portal where whistleblowers can securely upload classified information. Recently a number of newspapers have created their own systems.
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Humanitarian Data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/humanitarian-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has launched the Humanitarian Data Exchange to offer a single access point to statistics from the...
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News Coverage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/news-coverage/
The Juno group at the University of Leicester will be trying to keep track of our media engagement related to the Juno project over the coming months, so here’s an incomplete list of Juno articles that have involved University of Leicester researchers.
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New ways of using the Historical Directories collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/06/27/new-ways-of-using-the-historical-directories-collection/
Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on June 27, 2023 Over the last 18 months, we have been collaborating with a research project called the Congruence Engine .
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Museums in Ukraine and a tribute to Jim Roberts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/07/28/museums-in-ukraine-and-a-tribute-to-jim-roberts/
Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on July 28, 2023 Museum and Society have published a new issue on University of Leicester Open Journals.
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Republican nomination delegate calculator
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/06/republican-nomination-delegate-calculator/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 6, 2016 The New York Times have created a delegate calculator for the battle to be the Republican presidential candidate.
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Gender and Women, Peace and Security
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/11/gender-and-women-peace-and-security/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 11, 2020 To highlight the important role of women in peacemaking and to mark the 20th anniversary of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security, the...
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How to end the ‘UK’s role as a safe haven for corrupt individuals, their allies and assets’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/how-to-end-the-uks-role-as-a-safe-haven-for-corrupt-individuals-their-allies-and-assets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 A new publication from Transparency International which explores the rol e of the UK’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies and complicity in the Panama Papers affair.