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• Where is the best place to be a woman?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/where-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-woman/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 According to the 2014  Global Gender Gap report issued by the World Economic Forum – Iceland is top of the rankings.

• Are 15-year-olds prepared to deal with fake news and misinformation?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/are-15-year-olds-prepared-to-deal-with-fake-news-and-misinformation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 A report launched by the OECD this week   Data based on the cross-national PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) surveys.

• Tool for humanitarian workers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/20/tool-for-humanitarian-workers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2021 Urban-Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (U-NEAT+) The United Nations launched a free online tool recently which is to help humanitarian aid workers rapidly identify and...

• Truthy project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2010/11/12/truthy-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 12, 2010 Aims to analyse and create visual representations of how information is diffused on Twitter.

• Mexico Turns to Social Media for Information and Survival

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/30/mexico-turns-to-social-media-for-information-and-survival/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2011 Mexicans are using social media sites such as twitter and face book to exchange information about violence, areas to avoid. Key examples are Wikinarco – https://www.wikinarco.

• Where is the best place to be a working woman?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/where-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-working-woman/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 To mark International Women’s day the Economist created a ‘glass-ceiling index’ which uses OECD data to rank factors including gender pay gaps and labour force participation.

• Museums Alive!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2014/11/20/museums-alive/

  Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on November 20, 2014 A guest blog post by Ryan Nutting Museums Alive! participants The PhD students at the University of Leicester School of Museum Studies recently partnered with the Migration Museum Project to...

• Wasps may hold the secret to slowing down the ageing process

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/wasp-aging-leicester-biological

  Scientists at the University of Leicester have discovered that jewel wasps can slow down their biological rate of ageing

• How sexual violence in conflict can be combatted through new forensic DNA collecting methods

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/how-sexual-violence-in-conflict-can-be-combatted-through-new-methods-for-collecting-forensic-dna

  Dr Lisa Smith (pictured) from the Department of Criminology has launched a new project to investigate alternative ways of collecting DNA evidence from victims of sexual violence in conflict zones and displaced communities, including refugee camps.

• Researchers create novel compound targeting melanoma cells

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/researchers-create-novel-compound-targeting-melanoma-cells

  An international team of researchers, including a Professor from the University of Leicester, has developed a novel compound that successfully inhibits growth of melanoma cells by targeting specific epigenetic modifying proteins in these cells.