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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.

• An LGBTQ+ history project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/09/an-lgbtq-history-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2022 Paud’s Pins – an LGBTQ+ history project   An LGBT community archive which comprises over 100 badges belonging to former Gay’s the Word  bookshop manager Paud Hegarty.

• 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...

• 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.

• A letter from the Vice-Chancellor on national reports of drink spiking

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/letter-spiking

  A letter to students from University President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nishan Canagarajah, on national reports of drink spiking.

• Project to investigate how offenders engage with treatment in different settings

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/project-to-investigate-how-offenders-engage-with-treatment-in-different-settings

  Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship that will investigate why offenders do and do not engage with treatment in prison, forensic hospital and community settings. As many as 86% of offenders do not successfully complete rehabilitation programmes.

• Celebrating 35 years of DNA fingerprinting

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/10-celebrating-35-years-of-dna-fingerprinting

  A brand new interview with Sir Alec Jeffreys IW2oSGB-MaE|At 9.05am on Monday 10 September 1984, a discovery in a laboratory at the University of Leicester changed the way criminal investigations were carried out.

• Leicester academic secures grant to research technological advancements in UK energy system

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-academic-secures-grant-to-research-technological-advancements-in-uk-energy-system

  A researcher at the University has secured a grant worth £459,000 for a project which will explore the vast potential of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT).

• 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”.

• Latest highlights from our postgraduate research community

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/latest-highlights-from-our-postgraduate-research-community

  The Graduate School is pleased to announce that the third issue of the Postgraduate Research Magazine Frontier is now available to view online.