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• New Economics Foundation

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/23/new-economics-foundation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2012 http://neweconomics.org/ Aims to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environmental and social issues.

• Congressional Directories Back to the 1800s digitised

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/29/congressional-directories-back-to-the-1800s-digitised/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2023 The US Government Publishing Office (GPO) has aigitized all Congressional Directories back to the 1800s.

• 1 million visits to UK Food Banks

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/27/1-million-visits-to-uk-food-banks/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2015 Trussell Trust has just released the shocking figures that in the last year more than 1 million allocations of food were made by the charity.

• Are Students addicted to their Mobile Phones?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/are-students-addicted-to-their-mobile-phones/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 Read this interesting exploratory paper.  Hooked on Smartphones: An Exploratory Study  on Smartphone Overuse among College Students by Uichin Lee et al.

• Right to education: global database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/07/right-to-education-global-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2014 Right to education global database   New from UNESCO  a gateway to information on legal and civil rights relating to education worldwide.

• How to improve social mobility in higher education

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/17/how-to-improve-social-mobility-in-higher-education/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2016 The report published this week by an advisory group of Universities UK has recommendations which include improving advice given to students and enhancing school/university collaborations.

• Events

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  Find out more about the events being held by us at the University of Leicester or events being held at other Universities or institutions.

• Student Sophie on a mission to promote heart health after the loss of her dad

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/defib

  A student who found her father lying dead on the driveway is behind a raft of measures to raise awareness of heart-related deaths at her university.

• University of Leicester reveals rarely seen photo of Sir David Attenborough to mark his 100th birthday

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/university-leicester-rare-photo-sir-david-attenborough-100th-birthday

  The University of Leicester has revealed a rarely seen photograph of Sir David Attenborough in his student days, ahead of the national treasure’s 100th birthday.

• Engineer creates open-source ventilator for COVID-19 patients

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/ventilator

  A University of Leicester-based engineer has created an innovative new ventilator designed to help COVID-19 patients.