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Atlas of African Health
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/atlas-of-african-health/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Just released by the WHO includes data on progress towards health-related Millennium Development goals.
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Fuel poverty and cold homes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/fuel-poverty-and-cold-homes/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 Fuel Poverty and Cold homes is worse in Britain t han in other European nations according to a ranking by the Association for the Conservation of Energy .
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Are women under-represented in the news?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/are-women-under-represented-in-the-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Yes according to the latest Global Media Monitoring Project report which found that they represented only 25% of those heard, read about or seen in the news 2015, the same...
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Is your bank under stress?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/is-your-bank-under-stress/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Read the latest report from the Bank of England for 2015 – the tests ‘assess the resilience of UK banks and building societies to a deterioration in global economic conditions.
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Gender statistics database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/gender-statistics-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) (an autonomous body of the European Union) has just launched a new gender statistics database for researchers which enables easy comparisons...
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Cybervault- How is the US government involved in cyberhacking/ defence and war?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/cybervault-how-is-the-us-government-involved-in-cyberhacking-defence-and-war/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 National Security Archive based at George Washington University has just launched this new specialist site to reveal and monitor the activities of the US government concerning cyberspace.
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Online censorship on social media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/online-censorship-on-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A first report from OnlineCensorship.org, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Visualizing Impact .
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Pride of Place
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/pride-of-place/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A great project led by scholars at Leeds Beckett University with the support of English Heritage which is working to produce an interactive map relating to places in England which...
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Britain and the EU: two papers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/18/britain-and-the-eu-two-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 18, 2017 Two key papers have been released by the UK government Future customs arrangements: a future partnership paper- HM Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs, and Department for Exiting the...
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End violence against women and girls
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/05/end-violence-against-women-and-girls/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 5, 2017 From 25th November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10th December, Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based...