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• Global Parents Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/06/04/global-parents-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2020 The First of June is designated by th e   United Nations as Global Parents day   s o here are some quick research links: Are parents becoming older? Yes in the UK according...

• Mental Health UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/mental-health-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 10 th October was World Mental Health Day and the first Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit has been held.   Its website has reports and decisions.

• Human Trafficking

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/human-trafficking-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 30th July was  World Day Against Trafficking in Persons . The official UN website provides background on the need for the day and related United Nations publications.

• Love Island, body image and mental health

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/love-island-body-image-and-mental-health/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 Reality TV ? Does it harm mental health With the recent death of Love Island reality TV presenter Caroline Flack  we have been reminded that a number of contestants on the show have...

• What is the value of fashion?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/what-is-the-value-of-fashion/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 Vogue has a history of the origins of London Fashion Week What is the value of fashion ? In 2018 British Fashion Council released some data about London Fashion Week including that there...

• International Women’s Day: some free statistics which show why it is necessary

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/international-womens-day-some-free-statistics-which-show-why-it-is-necessary/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Here are some free statistics which show why the fight for gender equality is necessary: The Office for National Statistics  records the current gender pay gap as 17.3% in 2019.

• ‘Closing the Gender Pay gap would take 95 years’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/24/closing-the-gender-pay-gap-would-take-95-years/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2017 Across OECD nations at current rates of progress according to the latest PWC Women in work report.

• Paul Brook

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/pb222/

  Paul Brook is a senior lecturer in sociology of work and employment in the School of Management and an editor of Work, Employment and Society. He researches and publishes on emotional labour, medical labour, labour process theory and service work.

• Science exploitation

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/space-projects-instrumentation/exploitation

  Learn more about science exploitation in the Space Projects and Instrumentation group at the University of Leicester.

• Tax-efficient giving

  https://le.ac.uk/giving/ways-to-give/tax-efficient-giving

  Learn more about tax-efficient giving and the ways your gift to the University of Leicester can be enhanced.