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• Which areas of the UK are the most vibrant (economically)?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/06/which-areas-of-the-uk-are-the-most-vibrant-economically/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 6, 2016 Find out by consulting The Vibrant Economy Index, a new resource launched recently by Grant Thornton which aims to measure and rank the economic and social well being or vibrancy of...

• Islamophobia Studies Journal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/10/islamophobia-studies-journal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2013 Islamophobia Studies Journal   is a new a bi-annual peer reviewed academic periodical published by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, UC Berkeley, which aims to...

• 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...

• 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.

• Human Capital Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/human-capital-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 Human capital Index. World Economic Forum launch the 2013 Human capital index. It aims to measure how well 122 countries value and achieve the full economic potential of their workers.

• Civil partnership data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/civil-partnership-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Latest civil partnership data released by Office for National Statistics. Includes unions and dissolutions. Also includes some articles on impact from 2005-2010.

• Population growth

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/population-growth/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Population Council develop new tool for assessing factors driving future population growth in a country.

• Street protests and their repression

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/street-protests-and-their-repression/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations released a report: Take back the streets about the repression of street protests worldwide. Countries covered include: U.S., U.K.

• Social surveys

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/08/social-surveys/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 8, 2013 UK Data service variable and question bank. Contains a catalogue of questions asked by major British social surveys since the 1990s.  Use to trace relevant surveys by topic.

• Women’s rights in the Arab world

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/womens-rights-in-the-arab-world/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Women’s rights in the Arab world. Thomson Reuters Foundation has published its third annual poll of gender experts, focusing on women’s rights in Arab League states.