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• Where is the riskiest place to live?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/where-is-the-riskiest-place-to-live/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 Download the latest world ranking from United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security.  It considers risk from extreme natural events and ranks 117 nations.

• Human Rights

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/01/human-rights/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 1, 2013 20 years OHCHR (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) A new official website to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this major UN agency . It includes news and links to key achievements.

• Cities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/cities-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014  Cities of Opportunity   Interesting new report on urban demographics from PriceWaterHouse Cooper.  Covers 30 major cities worldwide.

• 22nd March was World Water Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/22nd-march-was-world-water-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 The official website has details on this year’s theme water and work.  It includes a link to the full text of the 2016 UN World Water Development Report.

• Easter for social scientists

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/17/easter-for-social-scientists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2019 Just for fun here are some interesting research related facts on Easter chocolate! This infographic from Statista  has some basic facts on who celebrates Easter and what they do.

• 20 years of the National Minimum Wage

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/08/20-years-of-the-national-minimum-wage/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2019 20 years of the National Minimum Wage – what has been the impact? On 1 April 1999  the National Minimum Wage  (NMW) was introduced in the UK – a £3.

• More on overtime

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/more-on-overtime/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 How much overtime do British workers do? The Office for National Statistics has  Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) .

• University of Leicester film wins prestigious Learning On Screen Award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/harms-of-hate

  University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies has won a Learning On Screen Award 2024 for its short film, Revisiting the Harms of Hate.

• Facts and figures

  https://le.ac.uk/about/info/facts-figures

  The University of Leicester is a leading UK university committed to international excellence. Find out about the facts and figures that come together to show who we are.

• Leicester researcher wins National Hate Crime Award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/leicester-research-shortlisted-for-national-hate-crime-award

  Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy from our Centre for Hate Studies based at our Department of Criminology has won the ‘Research and Innovation Upstander’ award category at the National Hate Crime Awards.