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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Development aid targeted at women is rising

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/23/development-aid-targeted-at-women-is-rising/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2020 25 years since the Beijing conference, aid specifically for women and girls is  rising, according to latest data from the OECD It analysed OECD and DAC data invested by...

  • 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.

  • Fast Food Britain

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/28/fast-food-britain/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2017 Analysis by the Guardian has mapped fast food with social inequality and deprivation. One of the key concerns is that access to fast food will increase obesity.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Liberating Histories: now has periodicals guide

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/liberating-histories-now-has-periodicals-guide/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023  Liberating histories website expands with periodicals guide.   This site highlights feminist magazine titles written by and for women during 1970s-1990s.

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