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• Thousands of women are criminalised needlessly

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/07/03/thousands-of-women-are-criminalised-needlessly/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2015 According to the latest  Report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System large numbers of women are being sent to prison for short term sentences which are...

• Is the electoral system broken?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/is-the-electoral-system-broken/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 According to the Electoral Reform Society  the UK electoral system is in crisis as the first-past-the-post system does not reflect votes cast.

• Democracy is in Crisis

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/democracy-is-in-crisis/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 According to the latest annual report from Freedom House on the state of civil and political liberties worldwide the situation is worsening.

• Who are the top LGBT friendly employers in the UK?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/who-are-the-top-lgbt-friendly-employers-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 University of Leicester has moved up to 44th position.  Find out the others from the annual Stonewall 100 list.

• Child poverty in the UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/16/child-poverty-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2023 Find out levels of child poverty in the UK in the latest annual Local child poverty rates, After Housing Costs report compiled by the End Child Poverty Coalition, together with the...

• Southwest Asia and North African literature

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/01/southwest-asia-and-north-african-literature/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 1, 2023 Kotobli is a book discovery platform and database for authors, books, publishers and literary magazines from the  Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region.

• Gender bias in Chinese media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/09/gender-bias-in-chinese-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2022 Who makes the news in China? Men mainly.

• Our World in Data: Migration Explorer 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/22/our-world-in-data-migration-explorer/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2022 Explore global data on immigration, refugees and asylum seekers in a new visual dashboard created by Our World in Data using statistics derived from  United Nations Department...

• Suffragettes on File

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/suffragettes-on-file/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new educational resource from the National Archives designed for teachers of Key stage 1,3,5 – Suffragettes on File .

• Expansion of GovInfo (US government)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/14/expansion-of-govinfo-us-government/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2019 For those seeking full-text  US government documents Govinfo has now added more than 1500 Congressional Hearings since 2008.