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The UK Insecure Work Index 2024
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/the-uk-insecure-work-index-2024/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 The latest annual index from the Work Foundation shows that, in 2023, an estimated 6.8 million people (21.4%) were in severely insecure work, an increase of 500,000 from 2022.
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Racism and misogyny across public services
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/14/racism-and-misogyny-across-public-services/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2024 Public Harms: Racism and Misogyny across Public Services A report from The Fawcett Society and The Black Equity organization highlights the racism against and the invisibility of...
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Ken Weir
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/khw11/
Censoring Academics works well for Publishers Posted by Ken Weir in School of Business Blog on June 18, 2014 Kenneth Weir, Lecturer in Accountancy at the School, examines the popularity of a controversial article which he, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley,...
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LGBT Hate crime under-reported
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.
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Early UK business women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/early-uk-business-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Women Who Meant Business : Stories of early businesswomen who broke the mould. A website maintained by independent researcher Lizzie Broadbent.
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Racism and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/04/21/racism-and-ethnic-inequality-in-a-time-of-crisis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 21, 2023 Open access book: Racism and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/display/book/9781447368861/9781447368861.
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UK Archives: Empire Windrush resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/02/uk-archives-empire-windrush-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2023 To mark the 75 th anniversary of the ship bringing Caribbean migrants to the UK the UK archives has released a 7-minute film about their ‘Windrush’ resources.
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Israel and Palestine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/israel-and-palestine/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 AN updated fact sheet on the conflict in Israel and Palestine Get the statistical facts and chronological timeline from the ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event...
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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...
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Silk Roads Project website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/silk-roads-project-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 The International Dunhuang Programme has launched a new website . It features materials and learning guides relating to the history and culture of the East silk roads.