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What young people think and feel
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/10/what-do-young-people-think-and-feel/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 10, 2017 A fascinating worldwide survey from the Varkey Foundation which surveyed over 20,000 young people (born 1995-2001) in 20 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China,...
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The World Wealth and Income Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/the-world-wealth-income-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Launched in 2017 as a single point of access for statistics on global inequality data , t his great site is managed by an international consortium of economists including Thomas...
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The Global Conflict Risk Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/the-global-conflict-risk-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 This useful free source has been developed by the Joint Research Centre in cooperation with the Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Mediation Instruments Division...
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World Day of Social Justice: migrant labour resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/world-day-of-social-justice-migrant-labour-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 Last month (20th February) was World Day of social Justice . The 2018 theme was workers on the Move.
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Local elections data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/local-elections-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Elections centre established by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Associate Members of Nuffield College, Oxford has a wealth of data on local election results from 1964 onwards.
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Human rights day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/human-rights-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 The United Nations observance of this day occurs every 10 th December. The official website has related resolutions and news for 2018.
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Well-being of the aged
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/10/wellbeing-of-the-aged/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2014 The Global Agewatch Index From HelpAge International ranks nations worldwide on their environment for older persons.
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Do mobile phones effect student learning?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/do-mobile-phones-effect-student-learning/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Interesting new article from Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff, Stevie Munz & Scott Titsworth published online, on 21st May 2015, in Communication Education.
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Arabic Journalism Observatory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/02/arabic-journalism-observatory/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 2, 2016 A new initiative of the European Journalism Observatory in partnership with the Media Development Centre in Tunisia, the new AJO will focus on Arab nations, providing a portal...
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Online Gender Gap Audit published
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/26/online-gender-gap-audit-published/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 26, 2016 The World Wide web Foundation has recently launched its first audit of the difficulties women face at getting online.