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It is Ok to not feel OK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2020/07/01/it-is-ok-to-not-feel-ok/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on July 1, 2020 At the start of the Wellbeing Webinars for PGRs and ECRs here at the University of Leicester I sometimes find myself referring to the trend for emails to begin with, or contain, reference to ‘these...
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Keeping it Simples
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2020/05/20/keeping-it-simples/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on May 20, 2020 I am sure I have quoted Alexander Orlov, the world’s most famous Meerkat, on this blog before. Quoted his passion for things ‘simples’. Cutting out the complexity.
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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.
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Transparent: Inclusivity projects
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/10/25/transparent-inclusivity-projects/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2021 Transparent: Creating Organisations Inclusive of Black Women in Finance, Professional Services and Big Technology.
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Indigenous lands
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/11/04/indigenous-lands/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2022 Find out which Indigenous lands you live on using an interactive map .
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Global Peace Index 2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/global-peace-index-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Global Peace Index 2014 released This is compiled by The Institute for Peace and Economics and ranks 162 nations according to levels of peacefulness.
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Access to information aids development
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/28/access-to-information-aids-development/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2017 …according to the Development and Access to Information (DA2I) report from the Technology and Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington Information School and...
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IFS launch UK inequality review
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/15/ifs-launch-uk-inequality-review/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 15, 2019 Announced recently by IFS, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Angus Deaton .
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UK Web Content to be archived
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/18/uk-web-content-to-be-archived/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 18, 2013 The Legal Deposit Libraries of the UK and Ireland are to archive UK web content for the benefit of future researchers. More information from the BBC http://www.bbc.co.
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Same-sex marriage: France
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/24/same-sex-marriage-france/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2013 On-going discussion of same-sex marriage in the UK parliament and in France Read the full text of the relevant French law and details of the process in parliament from...