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                    ‘More than 40% of girls are sexting’ (NSPCC)https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/13/more-than-40-of-girls-are-sexting-nspcc/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 Sexting is common amongst girls, according to a new report from the NSPCC . 
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                    Surveillance Industry Indexhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/surveillance-industry-index-2/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Just launched by Privacy International and Transparency Toolkit this new tool aims to track the development of the global surveillance industry. 
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                    ecampaigning forumhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/23/ecampaigning-forum/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 23, 2011 http://www.ecampaigningforum.com/ An annual event where practitioners share advice and expertise on how to use social media in campaigning. The 2011 website http://ecflive.fairsay. 
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                    Leigh Buchanan Bienen: Workshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/09/leigh-buchanan-bienen-works/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 Academic website from Leigh Buchanan Bienen who has been based at Northwestern University School of Law and specialises in legal history. 
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                    Peacebuilding Impact Hubhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/12/15/peacebuilding-impact-hub/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2023 Peacebuilding Impact Hub Launched by UN DPPA’s Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), in collaboration with the Permanent Missions of Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, and South... 
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                    Free access to writings covering South West Asia and North Africahttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/19/free-access-to-writings-covering-south-west-asia-and-north-africa/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 19, 2023 SAGE is offering free access to journal articles, reference entries and chapters covering South West Asia and North Africa ‘for a limited period’ (period not defined). 
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                    How can UK universities improve the teaching of quantitative research methods in the Social Scienceshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/how-can-uk-universities-improve-the-teaching-of-quantitative-research-methods-in-the-social-sciences/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 This is the topic of a major new report just published by the British Academy . It calls for a greater emphasis upon developing skills more extensively and earlier in courses. 
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                    ILO Research Repositoryhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/12/01/ilo-research-repository/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2023 The ILO Research Repository provides free access to over 20,000 publications, mostly published since 2000. 
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                    Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Toolshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 A new report from think tank Rand describes the building of the database which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring,... 
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                    Bloomberg: Credit Default Swapshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/bloomberg-credit-default-swaps/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 Since the European Union ban on naked sovereign CDS in November, the volume of sovereign CDS trades has plummeted while the volume on financials CDS has increased, according to DTCC data.