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• Racism in British Universities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/racism-in-british-universities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The  UCU union has just released a survey of its BME members in which shockingly 90% of those who answered reported that they had faced barriers to promotion and over 70%...

• Gender imbalance in film scripts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/gender-imbalance-in-film-scripts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 University of Washington computer scientists have created a tool which analyses film scripts to consider the relative power and agency of characters in films.

• On the theme of voting…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/on-the-theme-of-voting/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Vote for Froglet (Clangers 1974) voting film where the dragon campaigns for free soup for all! – free via the great BFI player website which is digitising and offering free to the public...

• Bristol Crisis service for Women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/30/bristol-crisis-service-for-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 30, 2022 ‘Women Listening to Women: an Oral History of the Bristol Crisis Service for Women’    Access a history of Bristol Crisis Service for Women/Self Injury Support.

• Social, Political and Economic Event Database (SPEED) Project Data.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/social-political-and-economic-event-database-speed-project-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014 … comprises data on de-stabilising events such as coups, revolutions and political and economic upheaval.  Analysis has been made from a global news archive.

• Charlie Hebdo attacks: first anniversary

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/08/charlie-hebdo-attacks-first-anniversary/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 8, 2016 Twitter coverage of the anniversary The University of Oxford has translated and made free on the Internet a book on tolerance. With extracts from key French philosophers and writers.

• New book on protest camps and political activism to be launched

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/launch-of-new-book-on-protest-camps

  A new book on protest camps and political activism, edited by two academics from our University, will be launched on campus on Wednesday 7 June.

• Leicester spearheads development of new urban studies centre in India

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/leicester-spearheads-development-of-new-urban-studies-centre-in-india

  Leicester academics will be involved in the launch of the new Centre for Urban Studies at Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) Baroda, Gujarat.

• Celebrating 25 years of Hubble

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/celebrating-25-years-of-the-hubble

  On 24 April 1990, NASA launched one of the most ambitious experiments in the history of astronomy: the Hubble Space Telescope.

• Schools and study

  https://le.ac.uk/cssah/study

  Browse the departments and Schools which make up the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at the University of Leicester.