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Partnership to equip ethnically diverse sports leaders of the future
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/sporting-equals
Leicester City’s Premier League-winning captain Wes Morgan, now part of the Premier League’s Advisory Board on ethnically diverse communities, was also on hand to meet the students, and to explain an athlete’s role in promoting diversity and inclusion.
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University involved in new trial to fight cancer caused by asbestos
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/university-involved-in-new-trial-to-fight-cancer-caused-by-asbestos
Patients with a hard-to-treat type of cancer are being given new hope in a ground-breaking clinical trial.
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Where is the World’s Most Expensive City?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/22/where-is-the-worlds-most-expensive-city/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2019 …according to the latest EIU intelligence report? In 2019 it was shared by Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris. The least expensive city is Caracas, Venezuela.
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The U.S. Media Index database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/24/the-u-s-media-index-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2021 F ind out who owns what . Compiled by the Future of Media Project the index details the 176 parent companies of daily news outlets.
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Anti-Semitism growing in the UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/anti-semitism-growing-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 Shocking data this week that anti-Semitic incidents recorded by the Community Security trust continue to grow. Their 2018 annual report lists 1,652.
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Radical! A Retrospective of Twentieth-Century Dissent
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/12/radical-a-retrospective-of-twentieth-century-dissent/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 12, 2020 An online exhibition from the University of Utah It includes examples of 20th century pamphlets, posters and literary magazines from radical socialist and workers organisations.
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Academics highlight how University research is helping to shape policing practice in the UK and beyond
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/academics-highlight-how-university-research-is-helping-to-shape-policing-practice-in-the-uk-and-beyond
Recently Dr Matt Tonkin and Richard Ilett from our Department of Criminology were invited to visit the Zhejiang Police College in Hangzhou China.
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Leicester Heroes event aims to recruit hundreds of new potential stem cell donors
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/university-teams-up-with-rik-basra-to-find-leicester2019s-unsung-heroes
The University has teamed up with The Rik Basra Leukaemia Campaign to host an event on Tuesday 25 October which aims to recruit hundreds of new potential donors to the Anthony Nolan Stem Cell Donor Register The Leicester Heroes event on campus will also celebrate seven...
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The Changing Wealth of Nations 1995-2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/09/the-changing-wealth-of-nations-1995-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2018 This book from the World Bank tracks the wealth of 141 countries between 1995 and 2014.
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How much does poverty cost the UK?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/how-much-does-poverty-cost-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 Interesting report this week from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which examines the cost to UK public services budgets of citizens suffering poverty.