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• Events in Leicester this October 2017 for Black History Month

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/04/events-in-leicester-this-october-2017-for-black-history-month/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2017 Phoenix Square marks Black History Month with a series of films programmed by local arts organisation Serendipity, in partnership with the University of Leicester, a one-off...

• Chinese aid to Africa: what are the facts?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/15/chinese-aid-to-africa-what-are-the-facts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2017 China has become  the biggest donor of aid to Africa- read more about the background in this interesting article from the Conversation .

• Bank of Mum and Dad fund 25% of Mortgages

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/bank-of-mum-and-dad-fund-25-of-mortgages/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 According to the latest research report from Legal and General and Centre for Economics and Business research (CEBR) in 2016 the high cost of housing means that 25% of all mortgage...

• UN envoy says austerity has inflicted misery on UK citizens 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/un-envoy-says-austerity-has-inflicted-misery-on-uk-citizens/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Last week comments from  Sir Philip Alston UN Envoy on Poverty  about inequality in the UK were widely reported.

• Measuring Peace in the Media 2011

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/27/measuring-peace-in-the-media-2011/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2012 The Institute for Economics & Peace produces a number of indexes which measure levels of peace and conflict worldwide.

• United Nations Digital Library launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/22/united-nations-digital-library-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 22, 2017 The long awaited site combines a number of existing sources from UNBIS net in a more user friendly and mobile friendly format.

• Charitable giving

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/20/charitable-giving/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2012 For research on charitable giving try these resources. Charities Aid foundation publishes UK giving   https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2011-publications/uk-giving-2011.

• Ready to research

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/03/ready-to-research/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2012 http://www.readytoresearch.ac.

• Economic arguments for gender equality

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/10/economic-arguments-for-gender-equality/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2017 Great economic evidence in favour of Gender equality was published in this recent report from the EIGE (European Institute for Gender Equality) which quoted the data that on average...

• Increasing domestic violence

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/increasing-domestic-violence/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 Two shocking reports published this week.