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Big data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/10/big-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 10, 2014 Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge A useful project to follow from the Oxford Internet Institute. Running 2012-14.
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South Asian Digital Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/14/south-asian-digital-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2014 http://www.saadigitalarchive.org/ An independent non-profit site which seeks to document the experiences of Asian Americans.
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Audit of Political Engagement in UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/audit-of-political-engagement-in-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 2014 Audit of Political Engagement released by the Hansard Society This annual report considers knowledge, understanding, engagement and participation in politics by the British public.
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Social Sciences Directory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/05/social-sciences-directory/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2012 http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.
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What do new graduates earn?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/what-do-new-graduates-earn/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 Find out in the latest annual review of the Graduate market from High Fliers research . Find out how the number of job vacancies for new graduates has changed from 2007-2017.
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Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/innovative-use-of-social-media-in-the-pakistan-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This used crowd sourced technology.
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Women in developing countries 9% less likely to have a bank account
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/women-in-developing-countries-9-less-likely-to-have-a-bank-account/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make...
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Standards of conduct in banking
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/standards-of-conduct-in-banking/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Read the recent Financial Conduct Authority reports to find out which 5 banks it fined for failing to control business practices in their foreign...
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The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/26/the-international-day-against-homophobia-transphobia-and-biphobia/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 IDAHOT is commemorated on 17th May.
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Violence against women and girls annual report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/violence-against-women-and-girls-annual-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 Just released from the CPS, the report shows a substantial increase in the number of crimes reported and the number of successful prosecutions in the UK.