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ILO launches new Labour Statistics portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/15/ilo-launches-new-labour-statistics-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2019 A new website from the International Labour Organisation enables researchers to quickly access up-to-date international statistics on all aspects of labour, employment and the labour...
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Men continue to dominate positions of power in British Life
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/20/men-continue-to-dominate-positions-of-power-in-british-life/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2020 According to the latest Fawcett sex and power report . The situation is even worse for BAME women.
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LGBT History Month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/02/07/lgbt-history-month-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2020 LGBT history month (February) is a good time to revisit these free British Library resources: LGBTQ histories on the British Library website explores the development of LGBTQ...
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Digital Incivility
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/digital-incivility/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 The Microsoft Digital Civility Index (DCI) Microsoft has been measuring online behaviour and has found a worrying increase of bad behaviour and digital incivility over the last 4 years.
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Windrush review : lessons learned
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/23/windrush-review-lessons-learned/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2020 In the introduction to this independent review of Windrush generation treatment by the UK Home office and other officials the author, Wendy Williams, states: “While I am...
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Social data during the COVID-19 pandemic
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/04/27/social-data-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2020 Useful crowd sources Google Docs being coordinated by Ben Geiger University of Kent and the National Centre for Social Methods.
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Women Elected Officials Database From the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/11/women-elected-officials-database-from-the-center-for-american-women-and-politics-cawp/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 11, 2020 The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) is part of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
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Internet affordability
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/12/14/internet-affordability/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2020 Where is the internet inaffordable? Get the data from the latest annual report of the Affordable Internet Alliance .
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Presidential inaugurations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/presidential-inaugurations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 US senate has a list of dates off all ceremonies. Many examples have links to digitised images of official photographs or paintings plus ephemera such as tickets. U.S.
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Social Mobility Barometer, 2021
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/social-mobility-barometer-2021/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 The latest annual report from the UK Social Mobility Commission is a poll of what the public think about equality and social mobility.