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• International Youth Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/17/international-youth-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2018 12th August was designated International Youth Day by the UN General Assembly in 1999. To commemorate it here are several resources.

• Social media, smartphone and internet usage

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/03/social-media-smartphone-and-internet-usage/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2018 Social media, smartphone and Internet usage is rising in ‘developing countries’ while developed countries’ usage plateaus a ccording to the latest report from the P ew research group.

• Charlie Hebdo attacks: first anniversary

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/08/charlie-hebdo-attacks-first-anniversary/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 8, 2016 Twitter coverage of the anniversary The University of Oxford has translated and made free on the Internet a book on tolerance. With extracts from key French philosophers and writers.

• The schoolboy sketches of John Leech

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/05/the-schoolboy-sketches-of-john-leech/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2017 The artist and illustrator John Leech, who became one of the foremost contributors to Punch and created the artwork for some of Dickens’ most popular works, notably A Christmas Carol , was born in 1817...

• Andrew Dunn: Page 16

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/16/

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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/16/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Ethnic minority groups underrepresented in long COVID research, study demonstrates

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/covid-minorities

  Leicester academics have highlighted that ethnic minorities are underrepresented in long COVID research.

• Collections development strategy (Archives and Special Collections)

  https://le.ac.uk/library/about/policies/special-collections-strategy

  Introduction The University Library’s Archives and Special Collections contains archives, manuscripts and rare books owned by or loaned to the University of Leicester.

• Leicester study to improve crop plants

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-study-to-improve-crop-plants

  Dr James Higgins (pictured) from the Department of Genetics has been awarded a New Investigator grant (£450,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication.

• Leicester-led study to explore mental health and drug use in colonial and post-colonial prisons

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/leicester-study-mental-health-drug-prisons

  The University of Leicester has been awarded £3.3m to research drugs and mental health in prison settings globally.