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Gender balance in politics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/gender-balance-in-politics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 A crowdsourcing game called Gender balance is trying to gather information about women in politics. The data collected will then be fed into the everypolitician site.
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Free speech at UK universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/02/23/free-speech-at-uk-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2021 Read the government paper that was released this week and responses from: Office of the Independent Adjudicator WonkHE Universities UK NUS UCU Russell Group Posted in Criminology ,...
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Latest Brexit debate in Hansard
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/12/latest-brexit-debate-in-hansard/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 12, 2016 On 7th December UK parliament debated the government’s strategy on Brexit. Read the Hansard entry and consult related documents on the UK parliament website .
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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.
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UNESCO open data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/unesco-open-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 UNESCO has created a new portal with data on annual expenditure and ongoing projects since 2014. It includes donor, regional and theme based information.
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Stolen Relations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/stolen-relations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 A digital repository about enslaved indigenous people from Brown University. Includes a collection of historical primers on Indigenous slavery in the Americas, timelines, maps and documents.
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National Gallery 200th anniversary new resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/28/national-gallery-200th-anniversary-new-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2025 The Imaginarium offers sound poetry and animation to explore paintings from the National Gallery collection.
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Women in Sport Research and Innovation Hub launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/28/women-in-sport-research-and-innovation-hub-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2025 Headed by Loughborough University the Women in Sport hub aims to cover health, sociology and sports science.
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Many access news on smartphones
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/many-access-news-on-smartphones/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 According to a number of recent research studies many people are now using their smartphones. A report from the Knight Foundation recently found that , 89% of the U.S.
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Schools and study
https://le.ac.uk/cse/schools-and-study
School of Chemistry School of Chemistry students in class together Computing at Leicester Computing at Leicester students chatting together in class School of Geography, Geology and the Environment School of Geography, Geology and the Environment abstract image of layers of...