Search
-
What happens when gender quotas are introduced for academic hiring committees?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/18/what-happens-when-gender-quotas-are-introduced-for-academic-hiring-committees/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2019 Interesting working paper covering the situation in France which found that after gender quota in academic hiring committees were imposed in France in 2015 there was a negative impact...
-
Is AI reinforcing Gender Biases?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/is-ai-reinforcing-gender-biases/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 Yes, according to the latest report from UNESCO entitled I’d blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through education The 145-page report feels that there is...
-
The Scottish Suffragette Cities Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/09/the-scottish-suffragette-cities-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2019 New website from Robert Gordon University which aims to map the struggle for the women’s vote in Scotland.
-
Are 15-year-olds prepared to deal with fake news and misinformation?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/are-15-year-olds-prepared-to-deal-with-fake-news-and-misinformation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 A report launched by the OECD this week Data based on the cross-national PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) surveys.
-
War of the Worlds Letters
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/04/11/war-of-the-world-letters/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2025 A digital library collection from the University of Michigan , The Richard Wilson – Orson Welles Papers preserves 1,349 letters sent to the New York City office of Orson Welles’s...
-
European Union Open Data Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/09/european-union-open-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2015 The EU Open Data Portal provides access to a range of data from EU institutions including Eurostat, the Joint Research Centre and the European Environment Agency.
-
New 5-volume open-access study on Antisemitism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/11/22/new-5-volume-open-access-study-on-antisemitism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2021 De Gruyter have just made free to download : An End to Antisemitism! the outcome of an international high-level conference that was held in Vienna in 2018 as a collaboration...
-
Ukraine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/09/16/ukraine/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 16, 2022 The Ukraïnica platform has been created by the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
-
Dialect and Heritage project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/07/dialect-and-heritage-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2022 Dialect and Heritage project This project from the University of Leeds in partnership with local museums aims to update the original 1951 survey of dialects which surveyed mainly older...
-
Entrepreneurs and Innovators: from the Middle Ages to the modern day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/11/16/entrepreneurs-and-innovators-from-the-middle-ages-to-the-modern-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2022 A teaching resource from Box of Broadcasts aimed at increasing the employability of students from a number of degrees, including management and History.