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Where is the world’s happiest country?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report . It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.
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Data centres for researchers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/06/data-centres-for-researchers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2016 The Economic and Social Research Council are funding three data centres – the Consumer Data Research Centre https://www.cdrc.ac.
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Unfiltered News
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/unfiltered-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Launched by Jigsaw in April 2016, t his site seeks to expose those news stories which are being under-reported by the media in different areas of the world using Google Newsdata.
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Seized LGBT books
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/seized-books/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 An online exhibition from Senate House Library which marks the 40th anniversary of the 1984 “Operation Tiger” customs raids on Gay’s the Word bookshop on charges of importing...
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Islamophobia Studies Journal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/10/islamophobia-studies-journal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2013 Islamophobia Studies Journal is a new a bi-annual peer reviewed academic periodical published by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, UC Berkeley, which aims to...
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Women’s Grassroots Activism Podcast Series
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/womens-grassroots-activism-podcast-series/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 An academic series funded by the United Kingdom Research Innovation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the grant awarded for Agency and Advocacy: Locating...
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It is Ok to not feel OK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2020/07/01/it-is-ok-to-not-feel-ok/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on July 1, 2020 At the start of the Wellbeing Webinars for PGRs and ECRs here at the University of Leicester I sometimes find myself referring to the trend for emails to begin with, or contain, reference to ‘these...
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Budhan Stories
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/28/budhan-stories/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 28, 2024 A brand new open-research collection from Dr Alice Tilche (University of Leicester School of Museum Studies) has been published on the Leicester Research Archive It is a collection of...
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About
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2013/12/19/about/
Posted by in Library Special Collections on December 19, 2013 The University Library holds internationally important collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives from as early as the twelfth century.
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Colin Hyde: Page 4
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/colin_hyde/page/4/
Colin Hyde manages the East Midlands Oral History Archive, based in Special Collections.