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UNICEF report shows children hit hard by financial crisis
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/unicef-report-shows-children-hit-hard-by-financial-crisis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Children of the Recession has used official data to rank the impact on children from EU and OECD countries. For UK data see the CPAG website .
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Catalonia Referendum Results
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/21/catalonia-referendum-results/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2014 The Catalan News Monitor is a useful English language site created by Plataforma pel Dret de Decidir , an umbrella organisation of more than 700 associations campaigning for the...
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Journalism and Discourse Studies launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/journalism-and-discourse-studies-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 This new open access journal is published by Newcastle University. It aims to offer a forum for the publication of studies covering critical discourse analysis and journalism.
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What does Boris owe?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/what-does-boris-owe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 This site has been created by Remain activist Sarah Noble: Associated with Vote Leave Watch It seeks to hold Leave campaigners accountable.
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Global university ranking of employability
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/18/global-university-ranking-of-employability/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2016 Which university graduates are favoured by employers? See the 2016 ranking of 150 institutions from the Times Higher .
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Theresa May’s Brexit speech
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/theresa-mays-brexit-speech/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 A transcript of Theresa may’s speech of 17th January is available at https://www.gov.
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What is the state of open data?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/what-is-the-state-of-open-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 The Open Knowledge Foundation has just published its open Data index.
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Netflix research
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/25/netflix-research/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2018 Netflix have just launched their own official site where they will be posting white papers and articles on what they are researching. See the Netflix official blog for further details.
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Atlas of Sustainable development Goals 2018
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/01/atlas-of-sustainable-development-goals-2018/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2018 This new visual atlas has just been released by the World Bank It has charts and articles based on the 17 SDGs taken from the World Development Indicators.
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Women are not represented in Local Government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/women-are-not-represented-in-local-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 According to the latest report issued by the Fawcett Society The proportion of female councillors is still only 34%.