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UK Education select committee uses Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/27/uk-education-select-committee-uses-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2012 Interesting development of the use of twitter by the committee. They asked the public to pick a question they would ask the Education Minister Michael Gove. http://twitter.
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CITI for Cities.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/citi-for-cities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 Major project of CITIbank which aims to help revitalise the infrastructure and economic development of modern cities worldwide.
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Reith Lectures Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/01/reith-lectures-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2011 Audio files and transcripts of over 240 lectures from 1948 onwards. These lectures are funded by the BBC and aim to advance public understanding of contemporary issues.
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MAVISE
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/30/mavise/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2011 A database of TV companies and channels in the European Union and Candidate countries. http://mavise.obs.coe.
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Journal of Cultural Economy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/03/journal-of-cultural-economy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2011 We now have access to the Journal of Cultural Economy from 2008 onwards. Find it on Leicester Elink.
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Opengendertracking project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/opengendertracking-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.
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Subject choice leads to gender pay gap?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/10/11/subject-choice-leads-to-gender-pay-gap/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2021 Gender differences in subject choice leads to gender pay gap immediately after graduation.
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Our World in Data: Migration Explorer
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/22/our-world-in-data-migration-explorer/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2022 Explore global data on immigration, refugees and asylum seekers in a new visual dashboard created by Our World in Data using statistics derived from United Nations Department...
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Russian Books of the 18th Century
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/19/russian-books-of-the-18th-century/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2022 Open access collection from the University of Illinois Slavic Reference Collection.
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Democracy is in Crisis
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/democracy-is-in-crisis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 According to the latest annual report from Freedom House on the state of civil and political liberties worldwide the situation is worsening.