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Women and pension schemes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/21/women-and-pension-schemes/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2014 The latest annual report from Scottish Widows shows that more British are women saving into pension schemes. However women typically still saved less than men.
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International Day to End Violence Against Women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/international-day-to-end-violence-against-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 Marked by the UN on 25th November. This year Orange used a social media campaign for publicity. S hocking statistics from UNWomen show why this day is necessary.
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European Union Open Data Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/09/european-union-open-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2015 The EU Open Data Portal provides access to a range of data from EU institutions including Eurostat, the Joint Research Centre and the European Environment Agency.
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Which universities have the best academic reputation?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/which-universities-have-the-best-academic-reputation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 An interesting new white paper which reviews the results from Thomson Reuters Academic Reputation Surveys 2010-2014.
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Digital Wildfire
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/30/digital-wildfire/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2016 This interesting ESRC-funded project is examining (Mis)information flows, propagation and responsible governance in the digital world.
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Leicester Lit & Phil University of Leicester staff blogs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/09/19/leicester-lit-phil/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on September 19, 2013 This is just a quick plug for colleagues’ contributions to this year’s Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society lecture programme.
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Working household poverty is worse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/working-household-poverty-is-worse/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 According to the latest annual poverty and social exclusion report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which provides data and analysis for the last 5 years .
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Digital Asia Hub – Launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/digital-asia-hub-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 A new independent, non-profit Internet and society research think tank based in Hong Kong.
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Research Ethics Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/research-ethics-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 Now offered in English, this great resource with articles and guidance is from the Norwegian Research Ethics committee.
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BFI Filmography
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/29/bfi-filmography/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2017 A great new resource from the BFI which explores a wide range of topics relating to the history of UK feature film.