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• Making Mental Health services a right not a privilege

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/making-mental-health-services-a-right-not-a-privilege

  A conference held at our University will see academics from around the world coming together to examine how mental health training can be globalised in the most effective way.

• New portrait of Sir David Attenborough revealed in city

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/new-portrait-of-sir-david-attenborough-revealed-in-city

  A stunning new portrait of Leicester honorary graduate and Distinguished Honorary Fellow Sir David Attenborough at Leicester’s New Walk Museum has been revealed by the man himself.

• Could female traders reduce market crashes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/could-female-traders-reduce-market-crashes

  Researchers in the Department of Economics at the University of Leicester have shown that increasing the proportion of female traders makes the market more volatile, but at the same time can reduce the occurrence of the most extreme crashes.

• Expert opinions cover Brexit Zimbabwe Catalan and Euroscepticism

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/expert-opinions-cover-brexit-zimbabwe-catalan-and-euroscepticism

  Professor Adam Cygan from our School of History, Politics and International Relations has written an article discussing how the County was divided over the question of Brexit and what the future may hold.

• Amplifying women’s voices: A Gender Balance Guide For Media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/05/26/amplifying-womens-voices-a-gender-balance-guide-for-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2020 A useful guide from WAN-IFRA and Women in the news It aims to educate news rooms on gender stereotypes in the media and how to avoid them.

• #WomanInHistory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/womaninhistory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 Launched by author Kate Mosse as a   a global campaign to nominate important women from any period of history who have made a major contribution but may now be less well known.

• Mali magic  

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/03/mali-magic/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2022 From the Google arts and culture website. This site was produced in association with UNESCO.

• World Press Freedom Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/16/world-press-freedom-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2022 The   World Press Freedom Index from RSF assesses the state of press freedom 180 nations worldwide, providing rankings and allowing comparisons over time.

• Coronations through history

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/05/coronations-through-history/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 5, 2023 The National Archives has a mini coronations website which includes images of seals, phots and discussions of government documents.

• Medieval and Renaissance Women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/19/medieval-and-renaissance-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 19, 2023 Medieval and Renaissance Women: charters and rolls   The British Library blog has a full list of digitised charters and rolls from their medieval collections.