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ICAI – Independent commission for aid impact
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/13/icai-independent-commission-for-aid-impact/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2012 The independent body responsible for the scrutiny of UK aid. A useful starting point for considering effectiveness. Reports from 2011 onwards are online. http://icai.independent.gov.
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Disseminating your research
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/03/disseminating-your-research/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2012 http://cuba.coventry.ac.uk/emrsg/units/dissemination/ A useful online tutorial for researchers created by the East Midlands Research Support Group (EMRSG).
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The Adventures of Charles Letagne – A Salutary Tale of Ethical Responsibility
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2020/08/13/the-adventures-of-charles-letagne-a-salutary-tale-of-ethical-responsibility/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on August 13, 2020 A former colleague, who I worked with in an academic context, derived great amusement from referring to a paper by the (imaginary) academic Charles Letagne.
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Postgraduate Researcher Careers: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 8
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/page/8/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Children, happiness and well-being
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/21/children-happiness-and-well-being/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2015 According to the latest Good Childhood report 2015 published this week by the Children’s Society, children in the UK are unhappy.
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World Internet Report 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/18/world-internet-report-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2016 The Center for the Digital Future has issued the latest annual edition of the World Internet Project Report.
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The World Elite Database project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/the-world-elite-database-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 The WED is an international consortium of scholars working together to develop a new standardized data regime to study and share data about elites across the world.
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Primary Sources US Presidents
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/18/primary-sources-us-presidents/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2016 State of the Union 2016 Read the full transcript of President Obama’s State of the Union speech on the White House website Politico has a video of the address and main responses.
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Chinese aid to Africa: what are the facts?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/15/chinese-aid-to-africa-what-are-the-facts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2017 China has become the biggest donor of aid to Africa- read more about the background in this interesting article from the Conversation .
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Tax havens- find out where they are located!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/28/tax-havens-find-out-where-they-are-located/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2017 If you have some spare cash to hide away try consulting this useful site created by the CORPNET group at the University of Amsterdam .