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• John and Lucille van Geest biomarker facility

  https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/biomarker-facility

  The John and Lucille van Geest Biomarker facility was established in 2013 thanks to a generous £2.5 million donation from the John and Lucille van Geest Foundation.

• 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.

• Only 7% of people describe themselves as feminists

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/22/only-7-of-people-describe-themselves-as-feminists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2016 According to the results from the 2016 Fawcett society state of the nation report  only 4% men and 9% women polled labelled themselves as feminists.

• In which British city do people earn the most?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/in-which-british-city-do-people-earn-the-most/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Find out this and other fascinating facts and figures on the economic and social indicators of Britain’s major cities by consulting the latest Cities outlook 2016  which has just...

• Parents, teens and digital monitoring

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/parents-teens-and-digital-monitoring/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Find out what percentage of American parents surveyed checked their teenagers Facebook accounts, texts and emails in this enlightening new study from Pew Internet Research Centre  .

• Youth and Media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2010/10/08/new-web-resource-youth-and-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 8, 2010 Youth and Media project http://youthandmedia.org/  A major interdisciplinary project headed by the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St.

• E-G8 Forum

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/05/31/e-g8-forum/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2011 The first G8 conference on the impact of the Internet upon G8 nations was held in Paris on May 24-25th.

• Friendly Numberhood

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/23/friendly-numberhood/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 23, 2011 http://www.numberhood.

• BFI new historic film clip site

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/31/bfi-new-historic-film-clip-site/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 31, 2011 http://beta.bfi.org.uk/ BBC/ BFI launch the beta site of historic film online archive – The Reel History of Britain.

• Occupy Wall Street

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/04/occupy-wall-street/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/occupywallstreet The social movement now has a space on the Internet where they are permanently archiving protest materials.