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• 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 .

• University Chancellor volunteers for medical study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/maggie

  A University of Leicester study seeking to discover the effect type 2 diabetes has on the heart has enrolled its Chancellor, Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, as its latest healthy volunteer participant.

• Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/17/inequalities-in-the-twenty-first-century/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2019 IFS launch the Inequalities in the Twenty-First Century Deaton Review   This review will involve experts from a range of disciplines including Sociology, Demography, Epidemiology,...

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• ‘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.