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  • Sexual harassment of women and girls in public places

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/26/sexual-harassment-of-women-and-girls-in-public-places/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2018 According to the latest report from the Women and Equalities Committee sexual harassment of women and girls is routine and relentless.

  • US Mid-Term Elections

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/09/us-mid-term-elections/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2018 Lots of links on this subject. New York  Times collected examples of misinformation over 4,000 were sent from social media.

  • Has the Gender pay gap worsened?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/12/has-the-gender-pay-gap-worsened/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 12, 2019 Though things are slowly improving at the University of Leicester , the media has reported that gap in wages between men and women is widening.

  • Is working overtime bad for you? Some interesting evidence from Higher education.

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/is-working-overtime-bad-for-you-some-interesting-evidence-from-higher-education/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 This article mentioned in  the Times Higher  last week had the headline Do some overtime (but not too much) It is based on this article: Fontinha, R., Easton, S., & Van Laar, D.

  • Happiness (and the effects of Covid-19 on it)

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/22/happiness-and-the-effects-of-covid-19-on-it/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2021 The World Happiness Report  is a survey of the state of global happiness that ranks over 150 countries by how happy their citizens feel themselves to be.

  • Are you addicted to your smartphone?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/07/are-you-addicted-to-your-smartphone/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 According to the latest Ofcom communications market report more people use smartphones than laptops.  33% regard it as their most used device for going online rather than a laptop.

  • Surveillance and Citizenship Project

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/20/surveillance-and-citizenship-project/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 20, 2015 Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society is an ESRC project based at Cardiff University.

  • 1866 suffrage petition 150th anniversary

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/1866-suffrage-petition-150th-anniversary/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 It is 150 years since The Women’s Suffrage Committee, formed by Barbara Bodichon, collected 1,500 signatures on a petition for women’s suffrage in 1866 and it was presented to parliament...

  • Women & Global Diplomacy: From Peace Movements to the UN

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/03/women-global-diplomacy-from-peace-movements-to-the-un/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2018 A new webguide from  UN Archives Geneva  combines primary and secondary sources from both the archives and library of the United Nations at Geneva.

  • Newspapers and celebrities

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/newspapers-and-celebrities/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 Discover Levenson digital archive launched.

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