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UN Yearbook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/29/un-yearbook/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014 The new UN Yearbook Website. T he new-look website provides free access to all editions of the UN Yearbook published since 1947.
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Chinese investment in Latin America
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/11/chinese-investment-in-latin-america/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2017 Free access to this detailed database from Inter-American Dialogue’s China and Latin America program and Boston University’s Global Economic Governance Initiative...
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Documentaries on Palestine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/22/documentaries-on-palestine/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2014 Palestinian docs Website that features information about documentary films which focus upon Palestine and life of Palestinians, compiled by University of St.
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Engineering with Foundation Year BEng
https://le.ac.uk/courses/engineering-with-foundation-year-beng/2026
Engineers solve problems – including ones involving their education. If you don’t quite have the entry requirements to study an engineering degree at Leicester, this engineering foundation degree will get you there.
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Risk calculator helps GPs predict which kidney disease patients need hospital care
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/08-kidney-study
A new study has discovered a way to help GPs predict which people with kidney disease are more likely to go on to develop kidney failure and need dialysis or a kidney transplant in the future.
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About
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/vvg/about/
The Virtual Vauxhall Gardens project began in January 2019. It aims to reconstruct Vauxhall Gardens in the 8th Century as a multisensory, user-controlled, VR environment.
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50 years of credit cards
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/04/50-years-of-credit-cards/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2016 Its 50 years since people started using credit cards in the UK with the issue of the first Barclaycards. The BBC has a fascinating social history feature.
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Should sexist adverts be banned?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/16/should-sexist-adverts-be-banned/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2019 This week the first prosecutions were made against adverts considered sexist by the new ASA code on gender stereotyping.
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Leicester scientist lends insight into Hubble ‘shadow play’ around planet-forming disc
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/shadow-planet-disc
University of Leicester scientist contributed modelling to new study to give insight into warping of protoplanetary discs by planets.
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Information Disorder – a report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/information-disorder/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 The Council of Europe recently commissioned this report on the ‘pollution’ of information and the Internet.