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Can social media predict election results?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/26/can-social-media-predict-election-results/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 A recent SSRN paper from Cardiff University developed a model using Twitter and considers how it could be applied to the UK 2015 general election.
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The BILNAS Archive: Unearthing the Legacies of Female Archaeologists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/the-bilnas-archive-unearthing-the-legacies-of-female-archaeologists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 The British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies Archive is based here at the University of Leicester.
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On the theme of voting…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/on-the-theme-of-voting/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Vote for Froglet (Clangers 1974) voting film where the dragon campaigns for free soup for all! – free via the great BFI player website which is digitising and offering free to the public...
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Observatoire de l’Afrique
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/25/observatoire-de-lafrique/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2012 http://www.obsafrique.eu/ A network of European and African institutes and experts on peace and security issues in Africa.
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Social Media and the Vatican
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/social-media-and-the-vatican/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 Social Media and the Vatican The canonisation of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II on 27 April was a social media event. A special website was created .
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Do mobile phones effect student learning?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/do-mobile-phones-effect-student-learning/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Interesting new article from Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff, Stevie Munz & Scott Titsworth published online, on 21st May 2015, in Communication Education.
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Invite to Dickens Day University of Leicester staff blogs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/09/18/invite-to-dickens-day/
Posted by Holly Furneaux in School of English Blog on September 18, 2013 Dickens Day: Dickens and History, Sat. 12th October 2013 You are warmly invited to Dickens Day, a lively annual event for Dickens fans, students and academics.
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2011 National Human Development Report for Russia
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/14/2011-national-human-development-report-for-russia/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 14, 2012 http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/national/europethecis/russia/name,24360,en.html Find out more about socio-economic conditions in Russia by reading this major new report.
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Governments and Facebook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/04/governments-and-facebook/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2013 Government requests for data from Facebook Which governments request information the most from Facebook? First report from Facebook covers 6 months from January-June 2013.
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Is working overtime bad for you? Some interesting evidence from Higher education.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/is-working-overtime-bad-for-you-some-interesting-evidence-from-higher-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 This article mentioned in the Times Higher last week had the headline Do some overtime (but not too much) It is based on this article: Fontinha, R., Easton, S., & Van Laar, D.