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Is Your News Fake?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/02/is-your-news-fake/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2017 Concerns about fake news are increasingly dominating the headlines and studies have shown that students often have difficulty evaluating the truth of resources .
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Web archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/28/web-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2014 Australian government launch new web archive The Australian Government Web Archive is a new site launched by the National Library of Australia.
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Suicides: UK prisons and beyond
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/27/suicides-uk-prisons-and-beyond/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2017 Shocking news this week that the Ministry of Justice has recorded high levels of suicide in prison and an internal enquiry will be launched.
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Student placement in Special Collections, Week 5-6
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/09/19/student-placement-in-special-collections-week-5-6/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on September 19, 2025 Guest post written by Yi-Chen Su and Yongqin Huang, who are completing an eight week placement in Archives & Special Collections as part of their MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies .
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Migration in the media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/22/migration-in-the-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2015 How do the media cover international migration stories? The report, Moving Stories, is published by the Ethical Journalism Network and reviews media coverage of migration in the...
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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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Peer Assisted Learning in Computer Architecture, Informatics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2019/10/02/peer-assisted-learning-in-computer-architecture-informatics/
Posted by apatel in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on October 2, 2019 Peer Assisted Learning team in Informatics, CO1104.
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Beautiful and Artistic – Marbled Endpapers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/06/30/beautiful-and-artistic-marbled-endpapers/
Posted by Karin Li in Library and Learning Services on June 30, 2023 During my time here in Archives and Special Collections I want to highlight something I have found interesting – the distinct patterns found in some rare books.
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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...