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Open UNDP
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/15/open-undp/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 15, 2013 http://open.undp.org/ New open data website from the United Nations Development Programme. Get official data on over 6,000 development projects in 177 countries worldwide.
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Global slavery index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/global-slavery-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 According to the Walk Free Foundation there are 38.5 million slaves worldwide. including 8,300 in the UK.
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World Investment Report 2018 launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/09/world-investment-report-2018-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 9, 2018 The World Investment Report has been published annually since 1991 by UNCTAD. It provides specialist reports on trends in foreign direct investment worldwide.
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Archaeological placement
https://le.ac.uk/ulas/about/work-placements/placement
ULAS offers a 3 to 6 month commercial fieldwork placement, intended for those who are interested in gaining knowledge surrounding all aspects of practical training in field archaeology.
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University growth masterclass to benefit Leicester social enterprises
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/business-growth-social-enterprise
The University of Leicester School of Business (ULSB) is delighted to have successfully secured UK Shared Prosperity Funding (UKSPF) to deliver a programme focused on growing the local social economy.
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Obesity ‘accelerates’ COVID-19 mortality risk amongst ethnic minorities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/covid-19-obesity
A stronger association exists between deaths from COVID-19 and obesity in people of Black, South Asian and other ethnic minority groups than in White people, latest research published in the journal Nature Communications demonstrates.
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Breaking the ice
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/09/17/breaking-the-ice/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on September 17, 2013 Welcome to the School of English blog! My hope is that this becomes a way of communicating with each other, with our students, with the wider university and with the outside world about the whole range of...
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The payslip: effects of the minimum wage?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/payslip
Read the article "The payslip: effects of the minimum wage?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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From the past to the future of work
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/news/news/from-the-past-to-the-future-of-work
By Stephen Wood, Professor of Management, University of Leicester School of Business. My two edited books, The Transformation of Work? and The Degradation of work?, have been selected for Routledge’s ‘Routledge Revivals’ Series.
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Research sheds light on genetic processes underlying meningitis and gastroenteritis
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/24-genetic-processes-underlying-meningitis-and-gastroenteritis
University of Leicester researchers have developed a computer system to scan large sets of genomes in deadly pathogens