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How well do we manage our financial lives?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/23/how-well-do-we-manage-our-financial-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2017 Interesting findings on high levels of debt and vulnerability and lack of financial knowledge among the British adult population in the first Financial Lives Survey 2017 released by...
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Digital Technology and Older people
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/21/digital-technology-and-older-people/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2015 A recent government report What are the likely changes in society and technology which will impact upon the ability of older adults to maintain social (extra-familial) networks of...
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New fact-check sites for French newspapers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/24/new-fact-check-sites-for-french-newspapers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2017 With recent concerns about Fake news, seventeen local and national newsrooms in France, including AFP, Buzzfeed News, Les Echos, Le Monde, Libération and La Voix Du Nord have...
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PGR Careers blog University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2014/06/16/latest-news-in-career-management-provision-for-university-of-leicester-phd-researchers/
PGR Careers blog from the University of Leicester
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Homelessness
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/homelessness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Councils struggling to cope with homeless people.
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Will people in the UK live shorter lives?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/03/will-people-in-the-uk-live-shorter-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2018 This week the newspapers reported that life expectancy is falling or stalled in the UK for the first time since records began, but what are the facts on this? Here are some useful...
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Saturday 4th August
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/08/04/saturday-4th-august/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 4, 2012 Lots of people turning up now at JPL: a mixture of familiar and new faces to me. There is also a collection of expat Brits working at JPL, we exchange news.
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International Debt Statistics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/07/international-debt-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 7, 2014 International Debt Statistics 2014 Just launched by the World Bank, this new publication replaces the previous Global Development Finance, Volume II (1997 to 2009) and the earlier World...
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Stop violence against women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/12/stop-violence-against-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 12, 2016 The 16 days of activism campaign ended on 10 th December. But the release this week of the Femicide census by Womens Aid shows why it is still necessary.
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World Autism Awareness Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/31/world-autism-awareness-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 31, 2017 2 nd April is World Autism Awareness Day.