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• Leicester experts call for recognition of the Anthropocene epoch

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/anthropocene

  Geologists from the University of Leicester (UK) have joined forces with more than 50 peers to call for an official recognition of a proposed geological epoch.

• Gender pay gap

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/22/gender-pay-gap/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2024 20th November 2024 is equal pay day, the day on which it is calculated that British women stop being paid compared to men so effectively there is a gap of over 5 weeks...

• Tackling violence against women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/30/tackling-violence-against-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2016 Tackling Violence against Women is a great new website from the LSE centre for Women Peace and Security which aims to offer students and members of the public a solid introduction...

• Top 100 gay-friendly employers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/01/18/top-100-gay-friendly-employers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2013 Stonewall releases 2013 list of top 100 gay-friendly employers Find out who heads the list and the criteria used by downloading the analysis from the website: http://www.stonewall.org.

• Chatham House ‘Best think tank in Western Europe’ 2015…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/19/chatham-house-best-think-tank-in-western-europe-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2016 …according to the 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report an annual ranking produced by The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania.

• USA Primaries – Useful resources

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/usa-primaries-useful-resources/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 What is a primary? find out with this handy guide to the US electoral system from Vote Smart.

• Fake News – a new tool

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/06/fake-news-a-new-tool/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2017 Hoaxy is a joint project of the Indiana University Network Science Institute ( IUNI ) and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research it aims to provide visualisations of fake...

• How can social media be used in emergencies?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/22/how-can-social-media-be-used-in-emergencies/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2014 The Communication and Complex Emergencies Project is a collaboration between the University of Adelaide’s Applied Communication Collaborative Research Unit (ACCRU) and the Australian...

• Prison Reform

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/prison-reform/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016   This week the RSA published an interesting scoping paper on the future prison .  Browse their website to see other examples discussing the role and future reform of prisons.

• Is Britain Divided?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/04/is-britain-divided/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2016 Yes, according to the latest issue of the Social Attitudes survey released this week.