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What do students want from university?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/23/what-do-students-want-from-university/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 23, 2017 Interesting new study released by Comres for Universities UK entitled Education, consumer rights and maintaining trust , focuses on how students view their roles as consumers –...
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Exploring menopause through collections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/13/exploring-menopause-through-collections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 E xploring menopause through collections A Wellcome webinar/online discussion about how to explore museum collections in ways that are creative.
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French Presidential elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/24/new-fact-check-sites-for-french-presidential-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2017 Newspapers pay a key role in forming the opinion of the French electorate according to the recent Baromètre des médias, l’intérêt des Français pour...
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Bloomberg: Quantitative Easing
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/31/bloomberg-quantitative-easing/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2013 U.K. CPI dropped to a seven-month low last month, driven by lower energy prices. April’s 2.4 percent was less than economists’ median forecast of 2.6 percent.
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Women in developing countries 9% less likely to have a bank account
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/women-in-developing-countries-9-less-likely-to-have-a-bank-account/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make...
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Staff with caregiving responsibilities in UK higher education: Findings from a national study
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/06/13/staff-with-caregiving-responsibilities-in-uk-higher-education-findings-from-a-national-study/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 13, 2025 A recent national study in UK Higher Education reveals that staff with caregiving responsibilities face significant challenges in both their working and personal lives.
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Women like that: lesbian and gay history
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/26/women-like-that-lesbian-and-gay-history/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2013 Jane Traies, who is based at the University of Surrey, is pioneering research on the lives of older lesbians in the UK.
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USA voting patterns new visualization
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/06/15/usa-voting-patterns-new-visualization/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 15, 2012 http://smpbff1.dsd.census.gov/TheDataWeb_HotReport/servlet/HotReportEngineServlet?reportid=767b1387bea22b8d3e8486924a69adcd&emailname=essb@boc&filename=0328_nata.
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University of Leicester is now a supporter of DOAJ
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/12/02/university-of-leicester-is-now-a-supporter-of-doaj/
The University of Leicester is now an official supporter of the Directory Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
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Kae Tempest
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/30/kae-tempest/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2023 Documentary about trans rapper, playwright, novelist and poet Kae Tempest. Follows them on their rap tour but also as they transition. Only available to watch in the UK.