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The UK Insecure Work Index 2024
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/the-uk-insecure-work-index-2024/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 The latest annual index from the Work Foundation shows that, in 2023, an estimated 6.8 million people (21.4%) were in severely insecure work, an increase of 500,000 from 2022.
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Cooking Inauthentically: An Experiment with Flaounes – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/04/07/cooking-inauthentically-an-experiment-with-flaounes/
Deborah Toner, the Project's PI, describes her first experience of cooking flaounes, a celebration Easter food from Cyprus, the challenge of finding "authentic" ingredients and the sense of occasion created by making a celebration food.
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Brussels Street Lamp Museum
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2014/01/07/a-most-illuminating-museum/
A blog post from the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester about the Brussels Street Lamp Museum
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8 people own the same wealth as 50% of the world’s population
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/8-people-own-the-same-wealth-as-50-of-the-worlds-population/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 This week the latest annual meeting of the World Economic Forum took place at Davos.
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What should we do about Fake News?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/what-should-we-do-about-fake-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 This week the LSE Truth, Trust and Technology Commission launched its report.
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Libraries protect women’s cultural rights
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/libraries-protect-womens-cultural-rights/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 Report from IFLA’s FAIFE (Committee on Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression).
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Cooking Inauthentically Part 2: An Experiment with Acarajé – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/05/04/cooking-inauthentically-part-2-an-experiment-with-acaraje/
Deborah Toner, the Project's PI, describes her first experience of making acarajé, the perils of taking shortcuts and the value of traditional recipes
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Undergraduate Courses
https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/study/undergraduate
Find out about the undergraduate Chemistry degrees on offer at the University of Leicester.
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Carceral Archipelago: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 5
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/page/5/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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How to Sell Success, Failure and Fanaticism? Understand the Customer!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/06/02/how-to-sell-success-failure-and-fanaticism-understand-the-customer/
Posted by Georgios Patsiaouras in School of Business Blog on June 2, 2014 Georgios Patsiaouras, Lecturer in Marketing and Consumption at the School, draws sobering lessons from the popularity of the recent Hollywood Blockbuster, The Wolf of Wall Street.