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• Relaunched (with expanded content): Associated Press Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/28/relaunched-with-expanded-content-associated-press-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 28, 2012 http://www.aparchive.com/ AP Archive is the film and video archive of the Associated Press The collection includes over 1.

• Racism in British Universities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/racism-in-british-universities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The  UCU union has just released a survey of its BME members in which shockingly 90% of those who answered reported that they had faced barriers to promotion and over 70%...

• Prison Reform

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/prison-reform/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016   This week the RSA published an interesting scoping paper on the future prison .  Browse their website to see other examples discussing the role and future reform of prisons.

• Documenting Hate News Index launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/29/documenting-hate-news-index-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 29, 2017 Propublica in association with Google News Lab and a data visualization studio called Pitch Interactive has launched a site about hate crimes and bias incidents in the USA.

• Syrian Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/06/syrian-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2017 This website hopes to document and preserve evidence of human rights abuses in Syria.

• Refugees Deeply

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/refugees-deeply/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 Independent digital media journalism site which aims to cover the refugee crisis  indepth. Other independent journalism sites on this topic which are worth checking.

• Kleptocracy Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/kleptocracy-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 What is a kleptocracy?  Kleptocracy is a system in which well-connected elite is able to use patronage or corruption to exploit the national resources for individual gain.

• Inclusive books for primary school children

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/inclusive-books-for-primary-school-children/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 Inclusive Books for children   A website that offers recommendations by age category and theme for books that are inclusive and reflect the modern world.

• Lede

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/01/24/lede/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2011 The Lede is a blog that mixes New York Times content with news stories and postings taken from blogs and citizen journalists. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.

• Study

  https://le.ac.uk/education/study

  Whether you are looking to take the first steps into teaching, or seeking to develop and improve your practice, find out about the range of education courses available at the University of Leicester.