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• Is homework pointless?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/05/is-homework-pointless/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 With the return of the university academic year some TV programmes have discussed whether homework matters.

• International Day of the Girl – 11th October

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/international-day-of-the-girl-11th-october/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 Girls ‘banned from using mobile phones’ in many nations Shocking findings from a global survey released on the International Day of the Girl.

• Legislative Observatory on Freedom of Expression, Latin America launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/19/legislative-observatory-on-freedom-of-expression-latin-america-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 19, 2018 Legislative Observatory on Freedom of Expression  Latin America launched A special project of the the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE)...

• How students engage with the news

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/26/how-students-engage-with-the-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2018 A report from the US based Project information literacy which has implications for librarians and educators concerned with information literacy and the fight against fake news.

• US Mid-Term Elections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/09/us-mid-term-elections/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2018 Lots of links on this subject. New York  Times collected examples of misinformation over 4,000 were sent from social media.

• Human rights day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/human-rights-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 The United Nations observance of this day occurs every 10 th December.   The official website has related resolutions and news for 2018.

• Newspapers and celebrities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/newspapers-and-celebrities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 Discover Levenson digital archive launched.

• Ruth First papers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/ruth-first-papers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 This Digital archive was  funded by the School of Advanced Study to put online the papers of South African anti-apartheid activist Ruth First who was assassinated in 1982.

• Images of Woman – Visual Communication in Advertising

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/18/images-of-woman-visual-communication-in-advertising/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2019 A really great site for students created by Trevor Millum who studied History at Birmingham University before completing a PhD at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies...

• Does advertising effect consumption?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/29/does-advertising-effect-consumption/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 29, 2019 Interesting analysis from NHS  of a series of surveys.