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• Bloomberg: Turkey’s inflation

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/bloomberg-turkeys-inflation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Turkey has been one of the emerging markets affected by speculation regarding the Fed’s tapering of U.S. quantitative easing.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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...

• Digital South Caucasus Collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/28/digital-south-caucasus-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2025 A collaboration between the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World library NYU and institutions in the South Caucasus.

• PhD projects

  https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/research/projects/phd-projects

  See current PhD projects being undertaken by students involved in The Stanley Burton Centre at the University of Leicester.

• Index of African Governance

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/03/index-of-african-governance/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2023 The  2022 Ibrahim Index of African Governance has just been published.

• World Wide Income Inequality Database – updated

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/24/world-wide-income-inequality-database-updated/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2017 Latest release 2017 WIID3.

• Israel and Palestine

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/israel-and-palestine/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 AN updated fact sheet on the conflict in Israel and Palestine    Get the statistical facts and chronological timeline from the ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event...

• Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation.  It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.