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• Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools

  https://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,...

• Tool for humanitarian workers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/20/tool-for-humanitarian-workers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2021 Urban-Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (U-NEAT+) The United Nations launched a free online tool recently which is to help humanitarian aid workers rapidly identify and...

• Students, debt and standard of living

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/students-debt-and-standard-of-living/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 The Sutton Trust estimated in 2014 that students graduate with £44,000 debt and this week the Centre for Policy Studies reported that generation Y (born 1980-2000) will have a lower...

• Femicide census

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/20/femicide-census/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 20, 2015 The first UK census of women killed by men (2009-2013) was released by Women’s Aid last week.

• Aleppo – New spatial maps of the Conflict

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/aleppo-new-spatial-maps-of-the-conflict/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 Conflict Urbanism: Aleppo from the Center for Spatial Research at Columbia University, a project to build online maps of the conflict damage in the historic region of Aleppo.

• Primero: New Humanitarian open source software

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/03/primero-new-humanitarian-open-source-software/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2017 A potentially life–saving service which aims to provide free access to software and tracking devices for case workers protecting women and children in disaster or conflict zones.

• ‘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  .

• Surveillance Industry Index

  https://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.

• 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.

• Sex discrimination and sexism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/sex-discrimination-and-sexism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 The Fawcett Society Sex Discrimination review  found significant failings in the current laws.