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How can UK universities improve the teaching of quantitative research methods in the Social Sciences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/how-can-uk-universities-improve-the-teaching-of-quantitative-research-methods-in-the-social-sciences/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 This is the topic of a major new report just published by the British Academy . It calls for a greater emphasis upon developing skills more extensively and earlier in courses.
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Lit&Phil Society: Ernest Rutherford: from Kiwi farm boy to President of the Royal Society
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/08/litphil-society-ernest-rutherford-from-kiwi-farm-boy-to-president-of-the-royal-society/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 November 2022 Professor Mary Fowler will give a talk to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society on Monday, 14th November, about her Great Grandfather, Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics.
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Women will take 118 years to achieve equality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/women-will-take-118-years-to-achieve-equality/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 A ccording to the World Economic Forum Global Gender report which ranks over 140 economies on health, economic, political and education factors.
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Civil Service Women Leaders Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/22/civil-service-women-leaders-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2016 EY Senior Civil Service Women Leaders Index found that the UK ranked 4 th in G20 countries amongst the representation of women in senior government official posts.
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New website on Disaster Displacement
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/new-website-on-disaster-displacement/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 This aims to create a single platform or place where information can be found about people displaced by natural crises, disasters and climate change.
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French Revolution Publications Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/french-revolution-publications-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 French Revolution Publications Collection Free access to digital versions of over 4,000 items from the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center.
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Surveillance Industry Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/surveillance-industry-index-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Just launched by Privacy International and Transparency Toolkit this new tool aims to track the development of the global surveillance industry.
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Everyday sexism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/21/everyday-sexism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2016 A new podcast of a public lecture from Laura Bates, author of the Everyday Sexism Project. It was record at the LSE on 11 th October 2016 and lasts 1 hour 25 minutes.
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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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Spectator Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/15/spectator-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 15, 2013 Still in beta format: http://archive.spectator.co.uk/ Search free of charge the full text digital version of this weekly, right-wing magazine from July 1828 to December 2008.