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• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/3/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Suicides: UK prisons and beyond

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/27/suicides-uk-prisons-and-beyond/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2017 Shocking news this week that the Ministry of Justice has recorded high levels of suicide in prison and an internal enquiry will be launched.

• Flooding

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/flooding/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 The Global Risk data platform is a multiple agencies (partners include UNEP) effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards this includes floods,...

• 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.

• Epigenetics and global health case study

  https://le.ac.uk/vgec/topics/genetics-and-ethics-and-law/epigenetics/case-studies/epigenetics-global-health

  Epigenetics can help us understand global health trends, as epigenome is dynamic and frequently responds to environmental cues. For more information, take a look at our website.

• Leicester in 1945 – the British Council & Harold White

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/05/01/leicester-in-1945-the-british-council-harold-white/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on May 1, 2019 A few years ago, when I was working at the East Midlands Oral History Archive, I planned an oral history project that would record people’s memories of the immediate post-war years in Leicester.

• Caring for our Special Collections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/08/06/caring-for-our-special-collections/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on August 6, 2015 Visitors to Special Collections often ask how we preserve the rare books, manuscripts and archives in our collection. Much of what we do could be described as preventative care.

• 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.

• Learning through Culture

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/learning-through-culture

  This programme was established to encourage museums and galleries to develop their educational role.

• A quarter of FTSE 350 companies have only one woman on their board 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/16/a-quarter-of-ftse-350-companies-have-only-one-woman-on-their-board/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2018 …according to the 2018  report of the Hampton-Alexander review  into increasing the number of women in senior positions in FTSE 350 companies.