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Global Gender Gap Report 2022
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/29/global-gender-gap-report-2022/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2022 Global Gender Gap Report 2022 | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) Get information on the trends from 2020. The report records that it will take another 132 years to close the gap.
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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.
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Global Gender Pay Gap report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/04/15/global-gender-pay-gap-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2021 Closing the gender pay gap will take 135 years according to shocking statistics from the latest Economic Forum report This report benchmarks the evolution of...
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Sustainable Development Goals game
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/05/sustainable-development-goals-game/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 5, 2017 The United Nations have created a special board game (based on Snakes and Ladders) to teach children about 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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Israel Elections 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/israel-elections-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 Elections are due to take place on 17th March. The Israel Democracy Institute website is a good starting point for background information on the electoral process.
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Rise Up: digital archive of Canadian Feminism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/rise-up-digital-archive-of-canadian-feminism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 Covering the period 1970-1990. This resource from a women’s collective has a wealth of information.
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Holiday Memories
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/04/05/holiday-memories/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on April 5, 2019 As part of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) project we have been training volunteers in how to archive and use sound recordings.
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Finding Helena
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2020/04/28/finding-helena/
Posted by in Waugh and Words on April 28, 2020 May 3rd is the Feast of the Finding of the True Cross. Here Sara Haslam, our volume editor for Evelyn Waugh’s novel about St Helena, reflects on the time she has spent with the woman Waugh credits with the discovery.
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Robert Harris
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/robert-harris
The University has learned with regret of the death of Dr Robert (Bob) Roderick Harris who passed away on 11 January 2023.
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Global Cities: the View from Asia
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs7212
Module code: HS7212 The role of a city is one that is ever changing. Historically, city-dwellers made up only a small percentage of the global population but, due to mass urbanisation over the past 200 years, this has grown to over half the world's inhabitants.