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The Banksy Story
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/08/02/the-banksy-story/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2023 A playlist of 10 x 15-minute or 2 x 60-minute omnibus programmes on Banksy. Stories are told by people who have worked closely with him.
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Gateway to Global Aging Data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/12/01/gateway-to-global-aging-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2023 The Gateway to Global Aging Data : a data and information platform developed by The Program on Global Aging, Health and Policy and The Center for Economic and Social Research which...
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PGR Careers blog University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2014/11/19/updates-on-some-of-the-career-management-activities-happening-at-the-university-of-leicester/
PGR Careers blog at the University of Leicester
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Equality in Higher Education report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/equality-in-higher-education-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 Equality in higher education: statistical report 2017 from the Equality Challenge Unit The website of this organisation also has an excellent Athena Swan database of case studies on...
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Violence against women in elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/violence-against-women-in-elections-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 IFES release reports about violence against women in elections. Their website now includes a section which documents efforts to measure and combat this.
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Parliamentary rules database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/18/parliamentary-rules-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2019 ParlRulesData.org is a machine‐readable dataset of House of Commons Standing Orders between 1811 and 2015.
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Windrush Passengers 1948 Arrival List
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/windrush-passengers-1948-arrival-list/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 Digitised by Goldsmiths University of London new transcription of the Windrush passenger list the original of which is held at The National Archives.
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Financial Secrecy Index launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/financial-secrecy-index-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 Which jurisdictions have the most secret offshore tax havens? Find out in the latest annual ranking from the Tax Justice Network which covers transparency and accountability .
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Coronavirus: Media coverage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/coronavirus-media-coverage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 Media Cloud is monitoring global media coverage of the pandemic and has some interesting facts and figures on its website.
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Minecraft game: Uncensored Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/minecraft-game-uncensored-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 Uncensored Library by Reporters without Frontiers A minecraft game created by RSF which is filled with articles and websites which are censored in their countries of origin.