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• Social Justice Day 2017

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/24/social-justice-day-2017/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2017 20th February was World Social Justice day the 2017 Theme was “Preventing conflict and sustaining peace through decent work A key document is the adoption in 2008 by the ILO of...

• Diversity in HE. Or not…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/diversity-in-he-or-not/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Lies, damned lies and statistics on widening access to Russell Group universities Interesting article in the latest issue of Radical Statistic by Vikki Boliver which criticises the...

• Trump Twitter archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/trump-twitter-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 Trump Twitter archive has stored tweets from September 2016 until the account was suspended in January 2020. Items can be downloaded in csv files.

• GC wealth website

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/16/gc-wealth-website/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2023 A new tool for understanding wealth inequality which has been developed by Stone Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY. It comprises data and a library of research papers.

• UK General Election data from 1918-2017

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/23/uk-general-election-data-from-1918-2017/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 23, 2019 A House of Commons Library briefing containing constituency level data from 1918. This can be downloaded as either an excel or CSV file.

• Leicester space scientist proves she has what it takes to become an astronaut

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/leicester-space-scientist-proves-she-has-what-it-takes-to-become-an-astronaut

  Dr Suzie Imber, from the University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, is a step closer to becoming an astronaut after being crowned the winner of the six-part BBC show ‘Astronauts: Have You Got What It Takes?’ Suzie fought off tough competition from 11 other...

• Young people are less likely to own their own home

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/16/young-people-are-less-likely-to-own-their-own-home/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 16, 2018 According to the latest analysis from IFS: ‘In 1995–96, 65% of those aged 25–34 with incomes in the middle 20% for their age owned their own home.

• Leicester Leads the Way Geodata Event for Business

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester-leads-the-way-geodata-event-for-business

  On 12 March the University's IRSA project (part funded by the ERDF) organised a free event for local business and stakeholders to get across the importance of geographical data within the current trending Big Data agenda.

• Voices and Visibility

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/voices-and-visibility/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 The Voices and Visibility poster, http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Wall-Chart-A0_V7.2_low.

• Looting the Archives: Joe Orton

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2016/05/13/looting-the-archives-joe-orton/

  A blog post by Dr Samantha Mitschke about the scrapbook of press reviews kept by Joe Orton about his play 'Loot'.