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The Right to be Heard Framework: A learning companion
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/18/the-right-to-be-heard-framework-a-learning-companion/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2012 An online guide from Oxfam intended for development workers. The right to be heard framework aims to help poor people be heard by politicians.
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Mapping English inequality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/20/mapping-english-inequality/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2015 The English Indices of deprivation examine and rank multiple deprivation in England.
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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USA 2016 elections: New York Times Resource
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/usa-2016-elections-new-york-times-resource/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 Good use of technology from the New York Times: its Election 2016 bot can send users live news updates.
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Connecting Africa
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/13/connecting-africa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 Connecting-Africa is supported by the Netherlands African Studies Association (NVAS). It provides free access to digital resources on Africa.
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Think Tanks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/think-tanks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 An annual snapshot of the state of the think tank sector worldwide, drawing on data from the Open Think Tank Directory and a sector survey.
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How much is an Oxbridge degree worth?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/how-much-is-an-oxbridge-degree-worth/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 Released this week- interesting data in the Earning by Degree report from the Sutton Trust which considers differences in earnings from graduates from different universities and in...
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Open government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/open-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 How open is your government? The latest Global Open Data Index from the Open Knowledge Foundation ranks 97 nations according to the openness of their data on 10 themes: national...
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Exploring menopause through collections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/13/exploring-menopause-through-collections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 E xploring menopause through collections A Wellcome webinar/online discussion about how to explore museum collections in ways that are creative.
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Classic Movie Posters Online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/classic-movie-posters-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 Great new digital collection from the Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin . They are gradually placing online over 10,000 posters from the 1920s-1970s.