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Homelessness
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/homelessness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Councils struggling to cope with homeless people.
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How well do we manage our financial lives?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/23/how-well-do-we-manage-our-financial-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2017 Interesting findings on high levels of debt and vulnerability and lack of financial knowledge among the British adult population in the first Financial Lives Survey 2017 released by...
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Ethnicity Facts and Figures website launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/16/ethnicity-facts-and-figures-website-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2017 This week a ground breaking site was launched by the UK government which provides facts and figures on race and ethnicity in the UK.
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can19
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/christian_newth/
MA Museum Studies Placement Week 7-8 Posted by can19 in Library Special Collections on September 9, 2022 My time now at the University of Leicester Archives and Special Collections has ended, and I am proud of what I have achieved.
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National student learning analytics service for HE and FE
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/national-student-learning-analytics-service-for-he-and-fe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 A new national learning analytics service has been launched by Jisc. It is the world’s first national student learning analytics service.
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Zero hour contracts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/zero-hour-contracts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 The UK Office for National Statistics has just released some initial data on the number of individuals employed on zero hours contracts.
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Is Your News Fake?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/02/is-your-news-fake/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2017 Concerns about fake news are increasingly dominating the headlines and studies have shown that students often have difficulty evaluating the truth of resources .
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gesisDataSearch: a Data Discovery Index for the Social Sciences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/20/gesisdatasearch-a-data-discovery-index-for-the-social-sciences/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2018 Now in beta, a new tool which will enable researchers to quickly identify high quality social and economic datasets.
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Women work for free for 100 minutes per day…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/women-work-for-free-for-100-minutes-per-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 ccording to the National Management Salary Survey published by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and salary specialist XpertHR.
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Do Middle Eastern men support Gender equality?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/26/do-middle-eastern-men-support-gender-equality/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2017 Download the results from The International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES).