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Global Economic Prospects June 2012
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/06/15/global-economic-prospects-june-2012/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 15, 2012 http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTDECPROSPECTS/EXTGBLPROSPECTSAPRIL/0,, menuPK:659178%7EpagePK:64218926%7EpiPK:642189537EtheSitePK:659149,00.
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Journalists in danger
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/04/journalists-in-danger/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2013 A Day Without News http://adaywithoutnews.com/ Grassroots campaign with UN support to highlight the growing numbers of journalists who have been killed and injured in armed conflict.
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UK Peace Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/uk-peace-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 According to the Institute for Economics and Peace, United Kingdom Peace Index http://www.visionofhumanity.
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Is the UK an equal society?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/12/is-the-uk-an-equal-society/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 12, 2016 Released this week, the Casey Review into opportunity and integration. This independent review was commissioned in July 2015 and conducted by Dame Louise Casey.
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Children, happiness and well-being
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/21/children-happiness-and-well-being/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2015 According to the latest Good Childhood report 2015 published this week by the Children’s Society, children in the UK are unhappy.
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Trident
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/22/trident/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2016 The UK Parliament has voted to renew Trident Get some background on the history of this decision, its context in British foreign policy and implications by downloading the excellent...
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Occupy Wall Street protest site
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/occupy-wall-street-protest-site/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://occupywallst.org/ This website is a good example of the Internet being used to organise protests. The website includes user generated maps, video streams and organisers materials.
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World Bank Mobile Apps
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/05/world-bank-mobile-apps/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2011 http://publications.worldbank.org/index.
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Bias – the uncomfortable truth
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2015/09/15/bias-the-uncomfortable-truth/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on September 15, 2015 Having recently attended the Vitae annual conference for those of us who work in the field of researcher development, I find I am now reflecting on the content.
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‘Women still under-represented in UK HE management positions’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/women-still-under-represented-in-uk-he-management-positions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 The latest report from the non profit organisation Women Count indexes the representation of women as governors, Chairs and Vice-Chancellors in each of the 166 HEIs in the UK that...