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Survey investigates freelance creative practitioners and austerity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/survey-investigates-freelance-creative-practitioners-and-austerity
Arts organisations are adapting to austerity measures but the challenges of freelance arts and cultural workers have been overlooked despite making up a significant proportion of the arts sector workforce, according to Leicester researchers.
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The Muslim veil: a symbol of terror?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/muslim-veil
Read the article "The Muslim veil: a symbol of terror?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Andrew Dunn: Page 97
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/97/
Academic Librarian.
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Things you probably don’t know about the US Civil Rights Movement
https://le.ac.uk/hypir/subject-tasters/us-civil-rights
Professor George Lewis tells us things you probably don’t know about Martin Luther King Jr and the US Civil Rights Movement.
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Local elections data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/local-elections-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Elections centre established by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Associate Members of Nuffield College, Oxford has a wealth of data on local election results from 1964 onwards.
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The Neustadt annual Sociology lecture
https://le.ac.uk/cssp/events/neustadt
Learn more about the Neustadt annual Sociology lecture at Leicester.
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Saferpolitics.org
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/06/13/saferpolitics-org/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 13, 2025 A University of Liverpool project in co-operation with the Local Government Association, Saferpolitics.
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Time-limited access to articles on gender equality.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/time-limited-access-to-articles-on-gender-equality/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Gender Equity and Justice Free access (time-limited so take advantage quickly) to articles from SAGE publishing covering gender equity and justice.
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Online harassment
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/27/online-harassment/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2014 How common is online harassment? According to a Pew Internet Project repor t 40% of Internet users in the USA have personally experienced online harassment, 73% have...
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Leicester sports sociologist examines the making of British football
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/john-williams-book
The history of British football and its people is the subject of a book from University of Leicester sports sociologist, John Williams.