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• Cities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/cities-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014  Cities of Opportunity   Interesting new report on urban demographics from PriceWaterHouse Cooper.  Covers 30 major cities worldwide.

• Easter for social scientists

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/17/easter-for-social-scientists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2019 Just for fun here are some interesting research related facts on Easter chocolate! This infographic from Statista  has some basic facts on who celebrates Easter and what they do.

• World Food Day (16th October)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/18/world-food-day-16th-october/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2019 See the  FAO official website  for details of this year’s theme on healthy diet.

• 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.

• A day in the life: research services at Figshare Fest May 2023

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/06/20/a-day-in-the-life-research-services-at-figshare-fest-may-2023/

  Posted by Laurian Williamson in Library and Learning Services on June 20, 2023 Tom Moore, Research Services Consultant for open research recently attended the annual Figshare Fest at Manchester Museum.

• The Summer Intern – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2021/09/05/aysha-scans-the-summer-intern/

  Our Summer Intern, Aysha, recounts her time on the Arch-I-Scan Project.

• National Archives: Olympic record

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/21/national-archives-olympic-record/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 21, 2012 http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/olympics/ A specialist section of pages created by the National archives to highlight their Olympic and Paralympic games holdings.

• Human Rights

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/01/human-rights/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 1, 2013 20 years OHCHR (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) A new official website to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this major UN agency . It includes news and links to key achievements.

• 20 years of the National Minimum Wage

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/08/20-years-of-the-national-minimum-wage/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2019 20 years of the National Minimum Wage – what has been the impact? On 1 April 1999  the National Minimum Wage  (NMW) was introduced in the UK – a £3.

• Cybersecurity UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/cybersecurity-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 Recently the UK government revealed research on the most hacked passwords.  You can download the top 100,000 from the  National Cyber research centre.