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• What contributes to school students well-being?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/24/what-contributes-to-school-students-well-being/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 24, 2017 Find out by reading the latest OECD PISA reports. This also provides country surveys which consider where teenagers feel happiest.

• Where is the worst place in the UK to be a girl?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/26/where-is-the-worst-place-in-the-uk-to-be-a-girl/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 26, 2016 According to the latest report from Plan UK five indicators were used to rank the 346 local/unitary authorities in England and Wales.

• Is homework pointless?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/05/is-homework-pointless/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 With the return of the university academic year some TV programmes have discussed whether homework matters.

• The Paths to Equal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/28/the-paths-to-equal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 The Paths to Equal  – new twin indeces on women’s empowerment and gender equality based on data for 114 countries, including data on the progress towards the Sustainable...

• Banned Books and Academic Freedom

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/13/banned-books-and-academic-freedom/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 Sage has launched a new collection of free-to-read research of articles from its academic journals highlighting the effects of academic censorship on democracy, social-emotional...

• Leicester student research stories rated most out of left field in May

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leicester-student-research-stories-rated-most-out-of-left-field-in-may

  The feasibility of crying a river and the plausibility of spells in the Harry Potter universe are the top two most interesting University research stories in May, according to a list by PR consultancy Gerard Kelly & Partners.

• The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 2: What about ‘transferable skills’?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-2-what-about-transferable-skills/

  Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 In the first part of this post, I discussed the need to develop more broad and inclusive understandings of knowledge and to move away from unhelpfully simplistic and...

• Inclusive curriculum will ensure “HE is fit for the 21st century”, says Leicester academic

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/inclusive-education

  An inclusive curriculum will create a Higher Education system that is “fit for the 21st century”, a leading academic at the University of Leicester has said.

• Digital Futures for children research database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/11/digital-futures-for-children-research-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2024 https://www.digital-futures-for-children.net/research-database A  database curated by  the Digital Futures for Children project based at the LSE.

• Career trajectories in UK departments of Politics and International Relations

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/career-trajectories-in-uk-departments-of-politics-and-international-relations/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 A report for the British International Studies Association and the Political Studies Association covering UK academic careers in Higher education.