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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.
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Mapping NGOs website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/mapping-ngos-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 This is the website of a research project run jointly by the Global Development Institute (GDI, University of Manchester) and the Sheffield Institute for International Development .
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49% of adults in the UK use social media for news
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/49-of-adults-in-the-uk-use-social-media-for-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 Fascinating fact from the Latest Ofcom news consumption in the UK annual report. Yet only 37% trust social media. Get the full facts by downloading the report from the website.
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How digital is your Country?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/17/how-digital-is-your-country/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2017 The EU has released the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) , which gathers together more than 30 indicators ranking European nations according to themes such as...
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Social Class and Inequalities
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sy2075
Module code: SY2075 Debates around the Channel 4 programme 'Benefits Street' (2014) highlighted some of the problems with making 'poverty entertainment'.
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Statistics for Data Science
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ma7023
Module code: MA7023 The most important method in statistical analysis is the natural extension of simple linear regression models to include several explanatory variables, thus giving general linear models.
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The fight for minority rights in the United States to be explored at event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/the-fight-for-minority-rights-forms-2018a-continuous-thread-of-american-history2019-1
Issues of racism - from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s up until today - and how the ongoing fight for minority rights has formed a ‘continual and continuous thread of American history’ will be discussed at an upcoming ‘Remembering Rosa Parks’ event on...
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Talking points a range of topics tackled by academics 16 April
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/talking-points-a-range-of-topics-tackled-by-academics-this-week
Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans from the Centre for Medical Humanities has contributed an article to The Conversation looking into research by NSPCC Childline suggesting that in a poll of nearly 700 12 to 13-year-olds in the UK, one in five had viewed pornographic images...
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Make yourself at gnome the fashionable hermit in the garden
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/gnome-man2019s-land-the-fashionable-hermit-in-the-garden
The curious story of garden hermits - from their distant ancestors in imperial Rome to their humble modern counterpart, the dapper garden gnome - will be told at a free public lecture on Thursday 14 May.
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Heritage destruction in conflict zones offers archaeological opportunities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/heritage-destruction-in-conflict-zones-offers-archaeological-opportunities
An international archaeological team co-led by Leicester researchers is investigating an historic site devastated by conflict in Lebanon - and has demonstrated it is possible to obtain original and important information from heritage sites that have been devastated by...