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Leicester Professor honoured with global award for life-saving disaster risk work
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/nibedita-ray-bennett-disaster-deaths-award
The University of Leicester's Professor Nibedita Ray-Bennett has been awarded a prestigious Norio Okada Implementation Science Award for her work on disaster risk management alongside her long-time collaborator, Dr Hideyuki Shiroshita (Kansai University).
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Anarchism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/20/anarchism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 20, 2015 An interesting blog which is providing free full text materials is irishanarchisthistory .
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Digital Caricatures of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune (1870-71)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/12/13/digital-caricatures-of-the-franco-prussian-war-and-the-paris-commune-1870-71/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2024 Recently made available by the Cambridge digital library at Cambridge University Library https://www.lib.cam.ac.
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16 days of action to eliminate violence against women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/16-days-of-action-to-eliminate-violence-against-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 From the 25th November to 10th December activists across the world are taking part in the 16 days of action against gender violence as part of the International Day for the...
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Global cost of dementia set to reach US $1 trillion by 2018…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/global-cost-of-dementia-set-to-reach-us-1-trillion-by-2018/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 …according to the latest annual World Alzheimer report 2015 . It also includes literature reviews on the societal impact of dementia and evidence that its rate is increasing.
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What do students think of their courses?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/what-do-students-think-of-their-courses/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 Find out by downloading the 2016 Student academic experience survey from Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Higher Education Academy.
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Wider determinants of Health Tool launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/10/wider-determinants-of-health-tool-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2017 A great new tool for Public Health England which uses official data to explore the social and economic and environmental factors which impact on the health of the English population.
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Sexual harassment of women and girls in public places
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/26/sexual-harassment-of-women-and-girls-in-public-places/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2018 According to the latest report from the Women and Equalities Committee sexual harassment of women and girls is routine and relentless.
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New Jiscmail mailing list for researchers of Queer Bibliography launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/29/new-jiscmail-mailing-list-for-researchers-of-queer-bibliography-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2023 The description provided is: QUEERBIB@jiscmail.ac.
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Images of Woman – Visual Communication in Advertising
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/18/images-of-woman-visual-communication-in-advertising/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2019 A really great site for students created by Trevor Millum who studied History at Birmingham University before completing a PhD at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies...