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New Jiscmail mailing list for researchers of Queer Bibliography launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/29/new-jiscmail-mailing-list-for-researchers-of-queer-bibliography-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2023 The description provided is: QUEERBIB@jiscmail.ac.
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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%...
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Globalstat.eu
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/24/globalstat-eu/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2017 A useful website project created by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos (Lisbon, Portugal) and the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) which deals...
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Is homework pointless?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/05/is-homework-pointless/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2018 With the return of the university academic year some TV programmes have discussed whether homework matters.
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Does advertising effect consumption?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/29/does-advertising-effect-consumption/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 29, 2019 Interesting analysis from NHS of a series of surveys.
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United Nations Hand Book 2019 launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/14/united-nations-hand-book-2019-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2019 Get useful facts and figures on the working of the UN from this annual publication from the government of New Zealand.
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Protests Against Racism Web Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/24/protests-against-racism-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2023 The Protests Against Racism Web Archive is new from the Library of Congress. It focuses on preserving websites created in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020.
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Windrush at 75
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/19/windrush-at-75/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2023 Windrush 75 portal – New from the National Archives , a place to find out about the history and impact of the arrival of the Empire Windrush.
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Living wage level raised
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/living-wage-level-raised/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 The level of the living wage was raised by 40p an hour this week to £8.25.
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Universal credit – does anyone benefit?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/universal-credit-does-anyone-benefit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 IFS has conducted an economic analysis into the impact finding tha t it ‘will tend to weaken the incentive for single parents to be in work, and to strengthen the incentive for...