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Leicester experts discuss Brexit in new programme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-experts-discuss-brexit-in-new-programme
With less than a month to go until the EU Referendum, European Union experts from across the university have been giving their views on whether Britain would be better in or out.
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Gittins Family Charitable Trust Bursary
https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/scholarships-bursaries-discounts/gittins-family-charitable-trust-bursaries
The Gittins Bursary as available to campus based undergraduate students staring Nursing or Mechanical Engineering courses in September 2022.
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World’s Women 2015: Trends and Statistics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/worlds-women-2015-trends-and-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015 World’s Women 2015: Trends and Statistics. Launched by the UN this week. Data on population, health, education, work, power, violence, poverty.
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Global Peace Index 2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/global-peace-index-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Global Peace Index 2014 released This is compiled by The Institute for Peace and Economics and ranks 162 nations according to levels of peacefulness.
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Liberation Technology
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/10/liberation-technology/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2011 A research programme based at Stanford University which is exploring how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote...
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Meta-Activism Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/05/meta-activism-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2011 http://www.meta-activism.org/ The Meta-Activism Project (MAP) is a non-traditional think tank that uses digital networks to better understand their effects on social power.
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Trends in Armed Conflict 1946-2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/27/trends-i-armed-conflict-1946-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 27, 2017 Trends in Armed Conflict, 1946–2014 Free access to this factsheet of data recently published by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
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Orwell vs Kafka
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/10/orwell-vs-kafka/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2024 A suite of special programmes broadcast over eight days on BBC Radio 4 comprising a reading of 1984, six 30-minute documentaries on the authors and the relevance of their writing today...
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Discover Macpherson
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/29/discover-macpherson/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2023 DiscoverMacpherson.com A free, fully-searchable website which has been developed by Professor Brian Cathcart and Kingston University.
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No Other Land
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/04/no-other-land/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2025 The Oscar winning documentary No Other Land, about life under occupation in the West Bank, airs on Channel 4 at 23.15 on March 4th 2025.