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  • Invisible Hands, and the Market as Storytelling

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/10/23/invisible-hands-and-the-market-as-storytelling/

    Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on October 23, 2017   Valerie Hamilton, co-author of Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England with Martin Parker from ULSB muses on the way in which Adam Smith and subsequent economists have used the famous metaphor of an...

  • About

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/about/

    This is the blog of the Social Sciences Librarians at the University of Leicester.  Your librarians are Andrew Dunn (Learning and Teaching) and William Farrell (Research).  We hope to provide you with interesting and useful information on this blog.

  • Alternatives to Wikileaks

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/alternatives-to-wikileaks/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 Wikileaks is widely known as a portal where whistleblowers can securely upload classified information.  Recently a number of newspapers have created their own systems.

  • Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 1117 June

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-11-17-june

    Dr Daniel Zadik from the Department of Genetics has written an article for The Conversation exploring food intolerance in ancient cultures.

  • Social media in peace mediation: a practical framework

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/social-media-in-peace-mediation-a-practical-framework/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 A new paper by UN DPPA Mediation Support Unit and Swiss Peace which explores the role of social media in armed conflict.

  • Open access theses and dissertations

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/20/open-access-theses-and-dissertations/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2018 OpenDissertations.org,   a project from EBSCO Information Services  (EBSCO) and  BiblioLabs , has now been officially been launched.

  • APO Disability Research Collection (Australia and New Zealand)

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/apo-disability-research-collection-australia-and-new-zealand/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 Australian Policy collaborating with the National Disability Research Partnership to create a portal of links to research published in Australia and New Zealand.

  • Our marathon

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/28/our-marathon/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 28, 2013 Northeastern University Launches Digital Archive of Boston Marathon Bombings Entitled Our Bombing it has crowd sourced journalist materials.

  • Twitter and government bodies

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/19/twitter-and-government-bodies/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2014 CIA launch Twitter account.   Their first post was ‘we can neither confirm or deny that this is our first tweet.

  • Artificial intelligence and education

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/04/artificial-intelligence-and-education/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2023 An open-access, crowdsourced book of ideas on how artificial intelligence might be used in education.

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