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• 24% of students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds have experience racial harassment in UK universitie

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/24-of-students-from-ethnic-minority-backgrounds-have-experience-racial-harassment-in-uk-universities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 Shocking new report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission has these findings. Get the methodology and facts by downloading the report.

• Gender balance in politics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/gender-balance-in-politics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 A crowdsourcing game called Gender balance  is trying to gather information about women in politics.  The data collected will then be fed into the everypolitician site.

• Which countries are the most generous?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/21/which-countries-are-the-most-generous/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2014 Find out from the latest World Giving Report published by the Charities Aid Foundation.

• 1929 election cartoons on women voters

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/1929-election-cartoons-on-women-voters/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 University of Kent archive has fascinating examples of cartoons from newspapers on how women will vote! Posted in Politics , Sociology | Tagged Democracy , Feminism , Politics ,...

• Where do Graduates Move to?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/06/where-do-graduates-move-to/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 6, 2016 Interesting report from the Centre for Cities which argues that there is a brain drain with UK graduates migrating towards London and other larger cities.

• UN Women constitutional database launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/12/20/un-women-constitutional-database-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 20, 2013 http://constitutions.unwomen.org/ Use this great new resource to find out provisions relating to gender in constitutions worldwide.

• AstroSeminar: Expecting the unexpected in the search for extraterrestrial life

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/05/astroseminar-expecting-the-unexpected-in-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 5 October 2020 This week’s virtual Wednesday talk will be by Peter Vickers (Durham), a philosopher, who will present “Expecting the unexpected in the search for extraterrestrial life” Members of the...

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/168/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Earliest evidence of wine consumption in the Americas found in Caribbean

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/wine-caribbean

  Earliest evidence of wine drinking in the Americas found in Caribbean pottery vessels by team involving the University of Leicester

• Pharmacists based within care homes make them safer for residents, research shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/care-home-pharmacies

  Research by the University of Leicester has shown that basing pharmacies in care homes makes them safer for residents.