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Ceri Ashwell
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/cla23/
Library Internship Posted by Ceri Ashwell in Library Special Collections on February 20, 2014 From the majority of people I’ve spoken to it seems that few expected to work in academic libraries after leaving university. And the same goes for me.
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Chatham House ‘Best think tank in Western Europe’ 2015…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/19/chatham-house-best-think-tank-in-western-europe-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2016 …according to the 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report an annual ranking produced by The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Does the UK have a digital skills crisis?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/does-the-uk-have-a-digital-skills-crisis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 According to the latest report by the Science and Technology select committee the ‘ evidence is clear that the UK faces a digital skills crisis’. ‘…up to 12.
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Public sector pay (UK)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/29/public-sector-pay-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2017 In the news recently has been some debate about whether the pay cap on public sector pay should be lifted.
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Liberating History Podcasts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/liberating-history-podcasts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 A series of 60 minute podcasts created by the Liberating Histories research team which is supported by Northumbria University, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The LSE Women’s...
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Racism in British Universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/racism-in-british-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The UCU union has just released a survey of its BME members in which shockingly 90% of those who answered reported that they had faced barriers to promotion and over 70%...
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Fast Food Britain
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/28/fast-food-britain/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2017 Analysis by the Guardian has mapped fast food with social inequality and deprivation. One of the key concerns is that access to fast food will increase obesity.
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Is homework pointless?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/05/is-homework-pointless/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 With the return of the university academic year some TV programmes have discussed whether homework matters.
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United Nations Hand Book 2019 launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/14/united-nations-hand-book-2019-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2019 Get useful facts and figures on the working of the UN from this annual publication from the government of New Zealand.
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Global Social Responses to Covid-19 Web Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/global-social-responses-to-covid-19-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 The Ivy Plus web archive is creating a record of the evolution of Covid-19’s social impact since March 2020 by preserving snapshots of key websites from areas of the global...