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• Globally women earn 24% less than men

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/01/globally-women-earn-24-less-than-men/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 1, 2015 Regional gender pay gaps vary from an average 33% in South Asia to 14% in the Middle East and North Africa.

• Kae Tempest

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/30/kae-tempest/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2023 Documentary about trans rapper, playwright, novelist and poet Kae Tempest. Follows them on their rap tour but also as they transition. Only available to watch in the UK.

• The Scottish Suffragette Cities Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/09/the-scottish-suffragette-cities-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2019 New website from Robert Gordon University  which aims to map the struggle for the women’s vote in Scotland.

• Chinese investment in Latin America

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/11/chinese-investment-in-latin-america/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2017 Free access to this detailed database from Inter-American Dialogue’s  China and Latin America program  and Boston University’s  Global Economic Governance Initiative...

• Was the Force behind Leicester's football success? Students explore the secrets of Yoda's Force power

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/was-the-force-behind-leicester2019s-football-success-students-explore-the-secrets-of-yoda2019s-force-power

  For many fans around the world May 4th is Star Wars Day, playing on the popular phrase ‘May the Force Be With You’ uttered by many characters in the films including Luke Skywalker’s mentor, Yoda.

• Scientists pour cold water on claim British rivers are ‘cleanest since Industrial Revolution’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/river-water-quality

  Scientists and charities have poured cold water on recent claims that water quality in British rivers is “better than at any time since the end of the Industrial Revolution”.

• University launches pioneering new centre to study bacteriophages to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/martha-clokie

  A pioneering new centre to study bacteriophages to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria has officially launched at The University of Leicester.

• Cataloguing photos relating to World War Two and Leicester – A work in progress

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/08/14/cataloguing-photos-relating-to-world-war-two-and-leicester-a-work-in-progress/

  Posted by Karin Li in Library and Learning Services on August 14, 2023 The East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) and The University of Leicester Special Collections have launched a new project, ‘Sounds for the Future’.

• Liberating History Podcasts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/liberating-history-podcasts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 A series of 60 minute podcasts created by the Liberating Histories research team which is supported by Northumbria University, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The LSE Women’s...

• Leicester Business Festival returns for tenth year in November

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/leicester-business-festival

  University of Leicester will sponsor Leicester Business Festival in its tenth year next month.