Amplified
messages: How hashtag activism and Twitter diplomacy converged at #ThisIsACoup
– and won, authored by PhD student Wasim Ahmed has been
published in the LSE Impact blog. The post is among the
most read this week, and has drawn retweets
from the mainstream media, and from
local community run organisations such as @HelpSheffield. Wasim noted that
the LSE impact is a fantastic platform to share blog posts, one of his
previous posts has received over 13 thousand hits.
New Article: European Union Librarians on the Move? An Exploration of Potential Impacts of Brexit on Workforce Diversity.
European Union Librarians on the Move? An Exploration of Potential Impacts of Brexit on Workforce Diversity. Our Director of Research and Senior Lecturer, Dr Andrew Cox, has published a new article alongside Josefine Blunk and Melanie Benson Marshall. The study investigated whether the academic library sector in the United Kingdom (UK) could be in danger of experiencing a decline in workforce diversity following the Brexit vote. A web survey was distributed to academic libraries and library information science (LIS) departments across the UK. Follow-up e-mail interviews were conducted with twelve individuals. Participants were very worried about effects of Brexit on their right to reside in the UK. Two years after the referendum they still felt a high degree of uncertainty about their future. Most participants wanted to stay in the UK. While about a third considered leaving due to Brexit, 21% were undecided and 14% had made concrete plans to leave. However, the reasons for leav
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