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Birmingham Black Oral History Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/birmingham-black-oral-history-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 The collection includes oral history interviews with 21 people conducted between 1990 and 1992, who originated from the Caribbean, South Asia and covered a range of themes...
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Carnegie medals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/19/carnegie-medals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2025 The longlist for the 2025 Carnegies has been announced. The Carnegies are awards for books written for children and young adults.
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Customising and sharing your Padlet
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/06/13/customising-and-sharing-your-padlet/
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 13, 2016 You can customise your Padlet by adding different colour backgrounds, or header images, and the posts can be displayed in different ways.
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AI and news media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/14/ai-and-news-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2024 What does the public in 6 countries think of AI usage in the news? Reuters Institute for Journalism has surveyed awareness and use of generative AI by members of the public in six...
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Surveys: displaced people
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/surveys-displaced-people/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 UNHCR and the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center Questionnaire Dashboard enables users to explore questionnaires hosted on the Microdata Library related to forced displacement.
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The Black Frontline
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/the-black-frontline/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 This project has conducted 300 oral histories with Black doctors and nurses in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ghana.
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Local skills shortages data tool
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/11/local-skills-shortages-data-tool/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2024 The Office for National Statistics has released an interactive tool allowing the user to look at demand for specific job roles in a local area and examine whether census and...
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ACLED Conflict Index 2024
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/12/13/acled-conflict-index-2024/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2024 ACLED Conflict Index 2024 Get reputable data from the team who measure and assess political violence worldwide using indicators based on deadliness, danger to civilians, geographic...
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The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/22/the-prado-museums-new-digital-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2024 …provides free access to a searchable catalogue of full text books and journals covering art history published from the late 15th to the early 20th century.
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Government Defence Anti-corruption Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/government-defence-anti-corruption-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 New from Transparency International an international ranking of governments worldwide whose defence policy expenditure is at high risk from corruption.