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• The Merchant of Venice 1936

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/19/the-merchant-of-venice-1936/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 19, 2023 A new adaptation of the Shakespeare play transported, along with a female Shylock, to London’s East End, 1936.

• Black British history scholarship is established to honour historian and activist Len Garrison

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/black-british-history-scholarship-historian-activist-len-garrison

  Three postgraduates will be able study Black British history with the University of Leicester free of charge, thanks to a scholarship set up to honour alumnus Len Garrison.

• The returns to undergraduate degrees by socio-economic group and ethnicity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/29/the-returns-to-undergraduate-degrees-by-socio-economic-group-and-ethnicity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 29, 2021 Published this week by IFS this report considers evidence on the potential benefits of a degree by studying earnings of recent graduates in a range of subject areas.

• employability4socialsciences

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/31/employability4socialsciences/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 31, 2011 http://employability4socialsciences.wordpress.com/ This new blog aims to support social science students who are applying for graduate level jobs.

• Jeanette Winterson, tax, libraries and Starbucks, Google and Amazon!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/23/jeanette-winterson-starbucks-tax-and-libraries/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 23, 2012 The author Jeanette Winterson delivered the inaugural Reading Agency lecture at the British Library on 19th November.

• Web Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/07/web-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 7, 2012 The World Wide Web Foundation has launched the Web Index : http://www.webfoundation.

• Using Twitter in university research

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/07/using-twitter-in-university-research-teaching-and-impact-activities-a-guide-for-academics-and-researchers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2011 Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities – A guide for academics and researchers: http://www2.lse.ac.

• Poverty in the UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/poverty-in-the-uk-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 4.5 million people are more than 50% below the poverty line, and 7 million people are living in persistent poverty in the UK.

• Ethnic Minority staff are paid less

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/ethnic-minority-staff-are-paid-less/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Shocking findings from UCEA  the Universities and Colleges Employers Association  in their latest report released this week.

• How can you measure happiness?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/20/how-can-you-measure-happiness/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 20, 2019 The  OECD has discussed methodology  (in terms of OECD nations) in a number of its reports.