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Which employers did not pay the minimum wage?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/26/which-employers-did-not-pay-the-minimum-wage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2015 View the list released by the UK government . Their website also covers regulation .
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Longer lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org.
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Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/innovative-use-of-social-media-in-the-pakistan-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This used crowd sourced technology.
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Cyberpolicy portal launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/cyberpolicy-portal-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) has just launched a Cyber Policy Portal that provides researchers with a single route to quickly get information and...
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Aleppo – New spatial maps of the Conflict
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/aleppo-new-spatial-maps-of-the-conflict/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 Conflict Urbanism: Aleppo from the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia University, a project to build online maps of the conflict damage in the historic region of Aleppo.
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The Blue Book
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/26/the-blue-book/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2024 The Blue Book collection (1946-1994) is a great factual resource for tracing diplomatic missions to the UN.
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Fake news spreads faster than true
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/fake-news-spreads-faster-than-true/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cross-checked the spread of 126,000 stories on Twitter against a database of stories fact-checked by six...
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2016 Global Food Security Index findings report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/2016-global-food-security-index-findings-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 This is the fifth edition of an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) study, commissioned by DuPont, w hich covers issues of affordability, availability and quality of food across 113...
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Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2018
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/04/global-multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi-2018/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 4, 2019 Just released from the United Nations development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), the latest edition of this index with an online data...
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US elections and politics pages from Google
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/06/us-elections-and-politics-pages-from-google-and-you-tube/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2012 http://google.com/elections/ed/us/results Useful for tracking progress in the 2012 presidential race! Includes the 2012 political calendar from pbs http://www.pbs.