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• In-work poverty

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/22/in-work-poverty/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2014 Great posting from the European Parliamentary service posted by Verena Kern which links to EU related report with research and data covering all 28 EU nations.

• Sub-Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/26/sub-saharan-africas-knowledge-economy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2015 Geonet is a new project from the Oxford Internet Institute.   It is mapping  ICT developments and analysing their potential for economic and social development.

• What is the world’s most influential think tank?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/what-is-the-worlds-most-influential-think-tank/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 Find out by checking the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report released by the University of Pennsylvania .

• Conflict in the Philippines

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/conflict-in-the-philippines/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 The new Bangsamoro Conflict Monitoring System from Alert and the World Bank is collecting current and historic data on incidences of political violence in the region.

• Online harassment: US

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/metoo-and-gender-equality-france-and-us/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 A recent Pew report on the American population has also found that the genders and different sectors of the population have different conceptions of what constitutes online harassment.

• Access to new journal titles

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/02/access-to-new-journal-titles/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2011 We now have access to: Fashion Theory: the journal of dress, body and culture (1997 – ) (which also includes access to Fashion Practice).

• Growth Commission

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/27/growth-commission/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2012 The London School of Economics has set up a Growth Commission which aims to provide contributions to the formulation and implementation of a long-term growth strategy the UK.

• Crowd Behaviour Network

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/crowd-behaviour-network/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 http://www.crowdbehaviournetwork.org/ Recently launched  international forum for academic research on crowd behaviour, management and safety.

• Twitter and government bodies

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/19/twitter-and-government-bodies/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2014 CIA launch Twitter account.   Their first post was ‘we can neither confirm or deny that this is our first tweet.

• Stonewall Good University Guide

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/stonewall-good-university-guide/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Stonewall have recently created a good universities guide .  This rates what specific UK colleges are doing to support LGBT  students. Leicester is on the list http://www.