Search

14143 results for: ‘museum studies’

• Mental Health UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/mental-health-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 10 th October was World Mental Health Day and the first Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit has been held.   Its website has reports and decisions.

• Ptero Firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ptero-firma-footprints-ancient-flying-reptiles

  Study led by the University of Leicester links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them, revealing a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.

• Changing face of journalism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/19/changing-face-of-journalism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2016 The Independent newspaper will be ceasing printed publication. A useful article on the conversation blog by a journalist involved in its early years sets the demise in context.

• Study

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

  The Department of Engineering at the University of Leicester offers a range of specialist degree courses. Find out more about our undergraduate degrees, postgraduate courses and PhD research opportunities.

• Leicester welcomes its world-changing Future 50 researchers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/future-50-research-students

  The next generation of world-changing researchers was given a warm welcome by the University of Leicester this week.

• Development data library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/development-data-library/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 USAID Library relaunched with enhanced data.   This website  provides information on projects supported from its funding.

• Global Parents Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/06/04/global-parents-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2020 The First of June is designated by th e   United Nations as Global Parents day   s o here are some quick research links: Are parents becoming older? Yes in the UK according...

• Social, Political and Economic Event Database (SPEED) Project Data.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/social-political-and-economic-event-database-speed-project-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014 … comprises data on de-stabilising events such as coups, revolutions and political and economic upheaval.  Analysis has been made from a global news archive.

• Young people are less likely to own their own home

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/16/young-people-are-less-likely-to-own-their-own-home/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 16, 2018 According to the latest analysis from IFS: ‘In 1995–96, 65% of those aged 25–34 with incomes in the middle 20% for their age owned their own home.

• The Public Voice of Women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/16/the-public-voice-of-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2014 The Public Voice of Women Read the transcript or listen to the podcast of  the London Review of Books lecture by academic Mary Beard delivered in March 2014.