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Peoples Assembly against Austerity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/07/peoples-assembly-against-austerity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2014 Peoples Assembly against Austerity launch new website Includes materials from unions, socialists and campaign groups against welfare cuts.
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International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 IDAHOT 2016 was celebrated on May 17 th . Find out why this day was chosen and why it continues to be needed with this blog posting from the LSE.
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The HERstroy Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/05/24/the-herstroy-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2024 The HERstory Project is a student-led site containing largely early-career researchers’ work in progress.
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Violence against women in elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/violence-against-women-in-elections-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 IFES release reports about violence against women in elections. Their website now includes a section which documents efforts to measure and combat this.
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Little Data book on Gender
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/31/little-data-book-on-gender/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2019 A new handy reference tool from the World Bank for those seeking accessible statistics on gender. It covers 217 countries, tracing progress in closing gender gaps between 2000-2017.
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Vaccinate yourself against fake news
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/vaccinate-yourself-against-fake-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 Using a new online game developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and Dutch media collective DROG .
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The Chilling: Global trends in online violence against women journalists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/the-chilling-global-trends-in-online-violence-against-women-journalists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 Based on a global survey of 901 journalists from 125 countries, this new UNESCO study found 73% identifying as women said they had experienced online violence.
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An Academic Literacies Approach to Digital Literacies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/08/16/an-academic-literacies-approach-to-digital-literacies/
Posted by Stephen Walker in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on August 16, 2017 This is an account of my initial attempt to find learning theory to underpin and inform the development of our Digital Literacies framework and its...
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JWST peers into the heart of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/red-spot-jwst
Observations by University of Leicester scientists reveal the interior of Solar System’s largest anticyclone like never before and its three-dimensional structure of temperatures, winds, and clouds in the vortex
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University of Leicester report finds 45% of UK’s east and southeast Asian people experienced hate crime in the last year
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/race-study
An alarming report co-authored by the University of Leicester has revealed hate crime experienced by east and southeast Asian (ESEA) people in the UK remains chronically underreported.