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  • 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.

  • Study aims to tackle overprescribing across England

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/medication-review

    A £2.4 million study led by the University of Leicester is underway to reduce the amount of unnecessary or inappropriate medications prescribed to older patients

  • A celebration of 100 years ago today, by Caroline Wessel

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/04/04/a-celebration-of-100-years-ago-today-by-caroline-wessel/

    Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 4, 2019 Newspaper cuttings reporting Fielding Johnson’s Gift, from Astley Clarke’s scrapbook (ULA/D2/1) On Friday 4 April 1919 Mr Thomas Fielding Johnson purchased the 36-acre site of Leicester’s 5th Northern Base...

  • Discover the stories behind the sparkle in new exhibition inspired by ULAS find

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/jewellery-exhibition-ulas

    The Cossington Necklace, found by archaeologists from University of Leicester Archaeological Services, is at the centre of an exhibition from 25 January – 15 June 2025 at Charnwood Museum

  • Studying as a mature student: David's story

    https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/study/undergraduate/mature-student-stories

    "I can still remember filling in my personal statement and pausing only briefly to reflect on why I wanted to read archaeology at Leicester. "It was a long-standing itch that needed scratching" was how I answered that one.

  • My internship with Academic Liaison and Special Collections

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/06/17/my-internship-with-academic-liaison-and-special-collections/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 17, 2016 By James Wilkinson After one of my friend’s mentioned a potential career path in librarianship, and that she was in the middle of undertaking a librarianship internship here at the University of...

  • Ageing in the UK

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/15/ageing-in-the-uk/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 15, 2013 A new report is available from The House of Lords Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change http://www.parliament.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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