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• Refugee week

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/23/refugee-week/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 23, 2017 This week was refugee week.

• Social Mobility, or lack of same

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/social-mobility-or-lack-of-same/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 ‘Social mobility policies have made little Impact’ according to the latest Social Mobility Commission report which assesses 20 years of government policy.

• Online harassment: US

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/metoo-and-gender-equality-france-and-us/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 A recent Pew report on the American population has also found that the genders and different sectors of the population have different conceptions of what constitutes online harassment.

• Democracy is in Crisis

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/democracy-is-in-crisis/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 According to the latest annual report from Freedom House on the state of civil and political liberties worldwide the situation is worsening.

• Who are the top LGBT friendly employers in the UK?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/who-are-the-top-lgbt-friendly-employers-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 University of Leicester has moved up to 44th position.  Find out the others from the annual Stonewall 100 list.

• Medieval and Renaissance Women project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/09/16/medieval-and-renaissance-women-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 16, 2022 Medieval and Renaissance Women project: digitised manuscripts   The British Library is in the process of digitising many of its manuscripts, rolls and charters connected...

• Sisters are doing it for themselves

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/09/30/sisters-are-doing-it-for-themselves/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2022 Funded by the National Lottery, Sisters doing it for themselves comprises 14 oral history recordings covering the careers, life experiences and insight of 14 women selected by...

• Poverty is sexist

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/poverty-is-sexist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 ONE launched the report Poverty is Sexist a rguing that poverty and gender inequality go hand-in-hand.

• Who’s downloading pirated papers?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/whos-downloading-pirated-papers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Fascinating article from Science magazine which concludes that students and researchers from around the world are. It focuses upon downloads from SCI-HUB.

• Vacant properties

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/vacant-properties/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Who owns property and leaves it empty? Recently the Grenfell tower tragedy has exposed the scandal of unoccupied foreign owner property in the UK.