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World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/world-development-indicators-wdi-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Just released by the World Bank this major dataset which has over 800 indicators covering more than 150 economies.
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How Facebook news presents different realities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/how-facebook-news-presents-different-realities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A new tool created by the Wall Street Journal Blue Feed Red Feed allows users to examine how different news sources cover political topics. See the Nieman reports.
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Atlas of African Health
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/atlas-of-african-health/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Just released by the WHO includes data on progress towards health-related Millennium Development goals.
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People Behind the Headlines: Humanitarian Society
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/14/people-behind-the-headlines-humanitarian-society/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2024 The UoL Humanitarian Society has won 2 awards for its monthly newsletter, People Behind the Headlines .
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Urban Heritage Atlas
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/26/urban-heritage-atlas/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 26, 2024 The UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas has just been launched.
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Global Health and Care Worker Policy Lab
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/26/global-health-and-care-worker-policy-lab/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2024 Created in April by the World Health Organization and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, this resource aims to provide free access to...
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Pride of Place
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/pride-of-place/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A great project led by scholars at Leeds Beckett University with the support of English Heritage which is working to produce an interactive map relating to places in England which...
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Business Multidimensional Poverty Index: Costa Rica
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/business-multidimensional-poverty-index-costa-rica/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 Costa Rica launched the Business Multidimensional Poverty Index developed by the Positive Horizon Association with the technical support of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development...
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How can UK universities improve the teaching of quantitative research methods in the Social Sciences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/how-can-uk-universities-improve-the-teaching-of-quantitative-research-methods-in-the-social-sciences/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 This is the topic of a major new report just published by the British Academy . It calls for a greater emphasis upon developing skills more extensively and earlier in courses.
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Prisons Memory Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/05/prisons-memory-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 5, 2017 The Prisons Memory Archive (PMA) is a collection of 175 filmed oral history recordings from individuals who had a connection with Armagh Gaol and the Maze and Long Kesh Prison during...