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• Social media and health

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/22/social-media-and-health/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 22, 2017 The most recent study by Royal Society for Public Health found in a survey of social media that Instagram was recorded as having the most negative impact on the mental well being of young...

• Hub for African Thought

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/hub-for-african-thought/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Created at the London School of Economics, the hub aims to showcase African academic authors, offering profiles, reading lists and reviews.

• Picturing Lincoln

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/08/16/picturing-lincoln/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2024 The Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum  has digitised more than 1,000 images of the American president. They cover his home life, his time in office and his assassination.

• Children, happiness and well-being

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/21/children-happiness-and-well-being/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2015 According to the latest Good Childhood report 2015 published this week by the Children’s Society, children in the UK are unhappy.

• Arch-I-Scan

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/new-approaches-to-the-material-world/arch-i-scan

  Explore how AHRC-funded, Leicester Arch-I-Scan research project applies machine learning technology and Artificial Intelligence to Roman archaeology (samian pottery).

• Too poor to afford school holidays?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/28/too-poor-to-afford-school-holidays/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2017 This week the Trussell Trust published research that during school holidays more children receive and rely on food bank emergency supplies.

• British Police and Race

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/05/police-and-race/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 British Police and Race The Centre for Crime and Justice has just provided free access to a collection of articles under the heading #BlackLivesMatter which discuss aspects of policing...

• https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/03/5003/

  To start LGBT history month, the launch of the Queer Heritage and Collections Network website. The Network is made up of professionals in archives and museums who are seeking to improve collecting, access and inclusion.

• Occupy Wall Street

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/04/occupy-wall-street/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/occupywallstreet The social movement now has a space on the Internet where they are permanently archiving protest materials.

• Ministers and Midlands universities launch £3m campaign to attract global R&D investment and drive economic growth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/investment

  University of Leicester joins seventeen universities from the Midlands in launching the Invest in UK University R&D – Midlands Campaign to drive investment into the region