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• Mapping vanished Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/01/06/mapping-vanished-leicester/

  More than 1000 photographs of streets and individual buildings in Leicester demolished between 1955 to 1975, mainly as a result of the postwar slum clearance programme, but also in connection with other developments.

• Study

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

  Courses available in the University of Leicester School of Healthcare

• Happiness research

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/01/happiness-research/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 1, 2011 This week the Office for National Statistics released the results of a public consultation on indicators which the British public feel should be used to measure happiness National...

• Center for Women and Politics, Rutgers University

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/16/center-for-women-and-politics-rutgers-university/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2012 http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/ Great starting point for finding academic information on Gender and the presidential elections.

• Disability and employment

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/22/disability-and-employment/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2024 Trade Board records can give us a rare glimpse into the experiences and treatment of individual workers with disabilities or chronic illness in the early 20th century.

• Understanding Society – new website

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/04/understanding-society-new-website/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2013 UK Household Longitudinal Study has launched its new website: https://www.understandingsociety.ac.

• The Independent Commission on Fees Report 2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/the-independent-commission-on-fees-report-2014/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 http://www.independentcommissionfees.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ICoF-Report-Aug-2014.

• ‘Women who become mothers before 33 earn 15% less’…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/18/women-who-become-mothers-before-33-earn-15-less/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2016 …than other UK women who do not become mothers according to a report released by the TUC. Statistics are based on  IPPR  research.

• Women in the 2019 Indian elections – are they the silent majority?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/17/women-in-the-2019-indian-elections-are-they-the-silent-majority/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2019 According to the  Times of India  women are likely to be the silent ‘majority’ as female turnout is predicted to be higher than men’s.

• Study sheds light on the genetics of stopping smoking

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/study-genetics-stopping-smoking

  The effectiveness of a common drug to quit smoking could be down to people’s genes, according to a study from the University of Leicester.