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• Nashriyah: digital Iranian historic newspapers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/nashriyah-digital-iranian-historic-newspapers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The University of Manchester now provides free access to a digital library of Iranian newspapers .

• What happens when gender quotas are introduced for  academic hiring committees?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/18/what-happens-when-gender-quotas-are-introduced-for-academic-hiring-committees/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2019 Interesting working paper covering the situation in France which found that after gender quota in academic hiring committees were imposed in France in 2015 there was a negative impact...

• The Fall of the Berlin Wall

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Try these recommended sources: BBC radio and TV archive footage     1948-1990 Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg  has 250 short videos on life in divided Berlin Chronicle of...

• 45% of British adults display antisemitic attitudes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/16/45-of-british-adults-display-antisemitic-attitudes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 16, 2015 According to the  Annual Antisemitism Barometer  issued by Campaign against Antisemitism, ‘45% of British adults display antisemitic attitudes’.

• Pen America Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/pen-america-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 Free access to this archive of lectures, readings and discussions featuring the leading writers and Nobel prize winners in Economics, Science and Peace, social reformers, philosophers...

• New York Times Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/24/new-york-times-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2012 We have electronic access to the full text of the New York Times for 1851-2008 and an index for 1851 to 1993 which enables searching on specific subject terms.

• Mark Palmer

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/people/deans-advisory-board/mark-palmer

  Mark Palmer is an independent management consultant working on several high growth businesses and with many of the UK's top business schools.  He is the former Global CEO of Consulting for the French multi-national - Webhelp.

• Shutdown STEM and Academia

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/07/08/shutdown-stem-and-academia/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 July 2020 Leicester physicists organise an informative workshop day for postgraduate researchers about the Black Lives Matter movement.

• Social Science PGCE

  https://le.ac.uk/education/study/pgce/courses/social-science

  The Social Science PGCE course aims to prepare you to meet the NCTL standards fully and to teach A-level Psychology and/or Sociology with confidence and authority. Find out more about studying for the Social Science Secondary PGCE course at the University of Leicester.

• Genetically modified bacteria to help combat muscle fatigue being developed by students

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/genetically-modified-bacteria-to-help-combat-muscle-fatigue-being-developed-by-students

  A team of second-year students are taking part in the International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM), in which they are required to modify bacteria to fulfil a useful task.