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River researcher awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholarship
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/fulbright-rivers
A Leicester expert in river systems has been awarded a prestigious scholarship to expand her research in the USA.
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International Day to remember slavery
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/30/international-day-to-remember-slavery/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2016 23 rd August was the designated International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition .
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Trees and Bees
https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/sdgs/biodiversity/trees-and-bees
Plant and Pollinator Policy Our Plant and Pollinator Policy (PDF, 174KB) aims to enforce the importance of biodiversity on campus for students, staff and the wider public that provides significant social, wellbeing, capital, economic returns, wildlife and...
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Fees, funding and scholarships
https://le.ac.uk/study/distance-learners/fees-funding-scholarships
Information on fees, funding and scholarships for distance learning students at Leicester.
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Leicester Diabetes Centre gets global recognition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/leicester-diabetes-centre-gets-global-recognition
The Leicester Diabetes Centre (LDC) has been named an ‘International Centre of Excellence’ and an ‘International Centre of Education’ by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF).
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Scientists discover one of the most luminous new stars ever
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/scientists-discover-one-of-the-most-luminous-2018new-stars2019-ever
Astronomers have today announced that they have discovered possibly the most luminous ‘new star’ ever – a nova discovered in the direction of one of our closest neighboring galaxies: The Small Magellanic Cloud.
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Gender balance in politics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/gender-balance-in-politics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 A crowdsourcing game called Gender balance is trying to gather information about women in politics. The data collected will then be fed into the everypolitician site.
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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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Indicators for Democratic Parliaments
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/01/02/indicators-for-democratic-parliaments/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 2, 2024 From the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a platform of 25 indicators that can be used to help assess the capacity and performance...
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Unrequited Love: The Enduring Pain of Convictism in Western Australia
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/05/22/unrequited-love-the-enduring-pain-of-convictism-in-western-australia/
Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on May 22, 2017 By Kellie Moss The sentence of transportation signified the physical removal, or banishment of convicts, from the wider social body to colonies overseas.