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People Behind the Headlines: Humanitarian Society
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/14/people-behind-the-headlines-humanitarian-society/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2024 The UoL Humanitarian Society has won 2 awards for its monthly newsletter, People Behind the Headlines .
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The University Library holds internationally important collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives from as early as the twelfth century.
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Where is the world’s happiest country?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report . It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.
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ACLED Conflict Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/09/acled-conflict-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 The ACLED Conflict Index A new indicator relating to civilian impact of conflict.
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Flood data portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/flood-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 New from UNOSAT download satellite-derived flood data in GIS vector format from the United Nations.
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Expanded Hansard coverage for UK Parliament website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/03/expanded-hansard-coverage-for-uk-parliament-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2018 A new redesigned site now offers 200 years of parliamentary debates from the main UK website . You can quickly search by Members, debates and petitions.
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World University rankings: what is their worth?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/19/world-university-rankings-what-is-their-worth/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 19, 2020 Interesting findings from an ARMA committee investigating some of the most well known and influential rankings of universities: ARWU , THE WR , QS, ...
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The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/10/26/the-armed-conflict-location-event-data-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2020 ACLED’s political violence and protest data website now has a new feature in addition to the datasets which allow researchers to monitor emerging crises around...
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Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Dashboard
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/16/secretary-generals-peacebuilding-dashboard/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2022 Peacebuilding Funding Dashboard, which was initially proposed in the Secretary-General’s report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace ( A/72/707-S/2018/43 ).
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Black students and access to HE
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/12/16/black-students-and-access-to-he/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 16, 2022 78% of universities are less likely to make Black students an offer to study than other similar applicants, according to the Ethnic Representation Index (ERI) launched by University...