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• Women’s roles in peace processes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/womens-roles-in-peace-processes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 A great site from the  Council on Foreign Relations which has data on female participation from 1990 onwards.

• International Day to End Violence Against Women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/international-day-to-end-violence-against-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 Marked by the UN on 25th November.  This year Orange used a social media campaign for publicity.  S hocking statistics from UNWomen show why this day is necessary.

• Meta-Activism Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/05/meta-activism-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2011 http://www.meta-activism.org/ The Meta-Activism Project (MAP) is a non-traditional think tank that uses digital networks to better understand their effects on social power.

• Learning Curve- how do education systems rank?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/learning-curve-how-do-education-systems-rank/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com/  New resource from Pearson and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

• How many times a day do you look at your phone?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/how-many-times-a-day-do-you-look-at-your-phone/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 http://www.tecmark.co.

• British Political Speech Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/british-political-speech-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 A great resource developed by Swansea University. It lists all major speeches for Conservative, Labour and Liberal/Liberal Democrat Party leaders from 1895 onwards.

• The Hologic Global Women’s Health Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/08/10/the-hologic-global-womens-health-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 10, 2021 Aims to be the first globally comparative study of women’s health. It is based on Gallup world poll data.

• Academy Awards

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/academy-awards/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 To mark the recent Oscars, here is some social science related research! Study the rhetoric (and find out which award winners cried) by consulting Who thanked Who a database of all...

• Bloomberg: Twitter’s IPO

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/15/bloomberg-twitters-ipo/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2013 Twitter Inc. filed for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Sept. 12. Use Bloomberg’s functions to analyze IPOs in the communications sector.

• The Chilling: Global trends in online violence against women journalists

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/the-chilling-global-trends-in-online-violence-against-women-journalists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 Based on a global survey of 901 journalists from 125 countries, this new UNESCO study found 73% identifying as women said they had experienced online violence.