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End violence against women and girls
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/05/end-violence-against-women-and-girls/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 5, 2017 From 25th November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10th December, Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based...
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ORBIS
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/09/orbis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2015 The European Political Strategy Centre has launched ORBIS – the Open Repository Base on International Strategic Studies.
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Are girls invisible?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/11/are-girls-invisible/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2016 Yes according to the most recent report from Plan International .
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Global Consumption Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/global-consumption-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Global Consumption Database Just launched by The World Bank and International Finance Corp (IFC). Useful for finding data on how people in developing countries spend their income.
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Sandy: Crisis response
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/05/sandy-crisis-response/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 5, 2012 Crisis Response maps from Google: http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy marks disaster areas. Also highlights local emergency twitter feeds.
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Industrial Organisation
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/industrial-organisation
Lead: Dr Subir Bose This research group will focus on research that deals with modelling the decision-making behaviour of individuals and firms, and its foundations in economic theory.
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What is behind the work persona?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2017/09/19/what-is-behind-the-work-persona/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on September 19, 2017 My role brings me into contact with many people from different parts of the world who are striving to attain the next step in their career.
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ILO launches new Labour Statistics portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/15/ilo-launches-new-labour-statistics-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2019 A new website from the International Labour Organisation enables researchers to quickly access up-to-date international statistics on all aspects of labour, employment and the labour...
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Listen to the very first episode of The Bulletin
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/listen-to-the-very-first-episode-of-the-bulletin
You can now listen to the latest news from around the university via The Bulletin, produced by the University of Leicester News Centre.
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Study finds accuracy of sexual assault testimonies is not affected by alcohol intoxication
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/study-finds-accuracy-of-sexual-assault-testimonies-is-not-affected-by-alcohol-intoxication
People are often concerned about the accuracy of testimony given by victims who were intoxicated during a sexual assault – but a new study by Leicester researchers has found that while alcohol intoxicated participants report fewer pieces of information about an assault,...