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• Citizen Evidence Lab

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/21/citizen-evidence-lab/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 21, 2014 The Citizen Evidence Lab is a new site from Amnesty International which has been created to help journalists and human rights workers authenticate user citizen journalist video materials.

• Humanitarian Data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/humanitarian-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has launched the  Humanitarian Data Exchange   to offer a single access point to statistics from the...

• Stonewall Good University Guide

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/stonewall-good-university-guide/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Stonewall have recently created a good universities guide .  This rates what specific UK colleges are doing to support LGBT  students. Leicester is on the list http://www.

• Global Voices Online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/global-voices-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://globalvoicesonline.org/ has many citizen journalism postings from around the world there is a special section for the Egyptian protests http://globalvoicesonline.

• RSS feed from UN

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/13/rss-feed-from-un/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2012 Get the RSS feed from the U.N. Dag Hammarskjöld Library http://un-library.tumblr.

• Resources

  https://le.ac.uk/cite/sanctuary-seekers-unit/events/resources

  Access free online resources about good practices to work with or teach students from refugee backgrounds

• Distance Learning Events

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/study/distance-learning/distance-learning-events

  As a distance learning student at the School of Business you will have the opportunity to participate in the annual Leicester Masterclass - a week long residential that takes place at Brookfield.

• How reading increases your life expectancy by 26 years!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/how-reading-increases-your-life-expectancy-by-26-years/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 World Book day was celebrated on Thursday What are the benefits of reading?  The Reading Agency quotes a number of studies on economic, health and well-being and educational impacts...

• Criminal Laws on Homosexuality in African Nations

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/21/criminal-laws-on-homosexuality-in-african-nations/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 21, 2014 Criminal Laws on Homosexuality in African Nations Useful  chart produced in February 2014 by the Law Library of the Library of Congress which summarizes the treatment of...

• Does fashion contribute to the UK economy?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/does-fashion-contribute-to-the-uk-economy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 I n London Fashion Week we consider how much fashion contributes to the economy.