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Using Twitter in university research
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/07/using-twitter-in-university-research-teaching-and-impact-activities-a-guide-for-academics-and-researchers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2011 Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities – A guide for academics and researchers: http://www2.lse.ac.
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Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/23/foreign-policy-diplomacy-and-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 23, 2013 Foreign Policy magazine Release their annual list of top 100 key people to follow on Twitter See the full list that includes politicians, diplomats and key political thinkers.
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Uncapitalised ‘learning outcomes’: the tutor and student’s friend – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2014/09/11/uncapital/
The 'Learning Outcomes Project' at the University of Leicester. Uncapitalised 'learning outcomes': the tutor and student's friend.
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Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/12/02/theodore-roosevelt-digital-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 2, 2011 http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/ Free access to a national collection about the life and career of the former American president. It has a timeline of key events.
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Bloomberg: Twitter’s IPO
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/15/bloomberg-twitters-ipo/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2013 Twitter Inc. filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Sept. 12. Use Bloomberg’s functions to analyze IPOs in the communications sector.
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UK Education select committee uses Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/27/uk-education-select-committee-uses-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2012 Interesting development of the use of twitter by the committee. They asked the public to pick a question they would ask the Education Minister Michael Gove. http://twitter.
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Success for tutor delivering refugee support
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/success-for-tutor-delivering-refugee-support
Aleks Palanac (pictured), an EAP (English for Academic Practice) tutor at the ELTU (English Language Teaching Unit), recently returned from an 8-day trip to Greece where she delivered a training programme for Volunteer Teachers of Refugees to teachers working in refugee camps...
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How Twitter users can work together to defuse social tensions
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/how-twitter-users-can-work-together-to-defuse-social-tensions
A report co-authored by Dr Paul Reilly (pictured) from the Department of Media and Communication has found that social media sites such as Twitter can be useful in keeping the peace and defusing tensions during times of social unrest.
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Leicester tutor to work in refugee camps providing language support
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-tutor-to-work-in-refugee-camps-providing-language-support
A University of Leicester tutor is heading out to refugee camps in Europe in order to help with English language classes.
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Twitter release data on state-backed propaganda from Iran and Russia
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/26/twitter-release-data-on-state-backed-propaganda-from-iran-and-russia/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2018 https://about.twitter.com/en_us/values/elections-integrity.