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• Social media and health

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/22/social-media-and-health/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 22, 2017 The most recent study by Royal Society for Public Health found in a survey of social media that Instagram was recorded as having the most negative impact on the mental well being of young...

• Women Parliamentarians suffer sexism, harassment and violence

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/02/women-parliamentarians-suffer-sexism-harassment-and-violence/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2016 Shocking new study by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) reveals that sexism, harassment and violence against women MPs is widespread worldwide.

• #METoo one year on: what has changed?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/05/metoo-one-year-on-what-has-changed/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 This week the Fawcett Society has issued a report on changing attitudes in the wake of the #MeToo movement This has shown increasing awareness.

• The World Elite Database project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/the-world-elite-database-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 The WED is an international consortium of scholars working together to develop a new standardized data regime to study and share data about elites across the world.

• University hosts national event celebrating interdisciplinary research and global impact

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/18-rutherford-fellows-event

  The University of Leicester hosted 50 Rutherford Fellows representing 15 countries in an event facilitating interdisciplinary research and enhancing impact.

• Looking at War Memorials

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/05/07/looking-at-war-memorials/

  Posted by Elizabeth Blood in Library Special Collections on May 7, 2020   In October-November 2019, Archives & Special Collections featured an exhibition in the cases outside our reading room, entitled Looking at War Memorials .

• Buried in the footnotes

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/buried-in-the-footnotes

  Buried in the Footnotes: the representation of disabled people in museum and gallery collections.

• African sources of information

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/african-sources-of-information/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015 Kenya digital archives: Google has been partnering with the Kenyan National Archives to provide free access to a great new online digital library .

• New targeted oral treatments for severe asthma to be studied

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/18-targeted-oral-treatments-for-severe-asthma

  A £2.68 million study to investigate the effective use of antibiotics to treat certain types of severe asthma is being spearheaded by researchers in Leicester.

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