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Gender Pay Gap reporting is now compulsory…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/11/gender-pay-gap-reporting-is-now-compulsory/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2017 … for employers with 250 or more staff. To find out about the new system see the UK government website and read the legislation.
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Migration Data Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/migration-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 The Portal was launched in December 2017 by IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) , with the support of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
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Has the Gender pay gap worsened?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/12/has-the-gender-pay-gap-worsened/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 12, 2019 Though things are slowly improving at the University of Leicester , the media has reported that gap in wages between men and women is widening.
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Mapping NGOs website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/mapping-ngos-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 This is the website of a research project run jointly by the Global Development Institute (GDI, University of Manchester) and the Sheffield Institute for International Development .
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How students engage with the news
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/26/how-students-engage-with-the-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2018 A report from the US based Project information literacy which has implications for librarians and educators concerned with information literacy and the fight against fake news.
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European Encyclopaedia on National Education Systems
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/european-encyclopaedia-on-national-education-systems/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 EURYPEDIA Useful new tool which has encyclopaedia style entries on the education systems of over 30 nations in Europe.
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8 years of Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/11/8-years-of-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2014 To mark 8 years in existance, Twitter launched the facility to look back in time and trace your first tweet.
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USA Presidential debates new resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/11/usa-presidential-debates-new-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2016 Following on from last week’s list of resources . Here are some more new discoveries.
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Local elections data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/local-elections-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Elections centre established by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Associate Members of Nuffield College, Oxford has a wealth of data on local election results from 1964 onwards.
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Citizen journalism websites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/19/citizen-journalism-websites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 19, 2013 Guardian Witness https://witness.guardian.co.uk/ A new site for citizens to share news photos and views.