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  • Honorary Professor among recipients of royal honours

    An honorary professor in our Department of Geography is one of several individuals associated with the University to be recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

  • Large corporations and tax

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 20, 2012 L arge corporations and tax. Here are some a starting points for research. HM Revenue website has the official regulations and forms.

  • Are girls invisible?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2016 Yes according to the most recent report from Plan International .

  • Are emojis sexist?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly  Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for  13 proposed designs to...

  • How diverse are UK journalists?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Find out by reading the results of a survey of 7,000 released this week by Reuters Institute.  It is based on a survey of 700 journalists conducted in December 2015.

  • Attitudes to Convict Ancestry: Documentary Review

    Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on December 2, 2016 In this blog post I review the documentary ‘A Secret History of my Family: Gadbury Sisters’ , which aired in 2016, and discuss how it reflects changing attitudes to convict ancestry amongst British and...

  • Femicide census

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 20, 2015 The first UK census of women killed by men (2009-2013) was released by Women’s Aid last week.

  • Expert comment Has the Olympic Games caught up with the modern world

    Despite greater representation of women in the Rio Olympics than in previous years, anachronisms and gender divisions still remain, according to John Williams from the Department of Sociology.

  • Sport and the Imperial bond

    Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (£43,708) July 2009 - April 2011 Dr Prashant Kidambi In recent years, historians have shown how sport became deeply intertwined with imperial and national identities within the British Empire.

  • US presidential elections (again)

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2016 To celebrate (!) the forthcoming elections here are some favourite historic digital collections.

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