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The World Wealth and Income Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/the-world-wealth-income-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Launched in 2017 as a single point of access for statistics on global inequality data , t his great site is managed by an international consortium of economists including Thomas...
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The Global Conflict Risk Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/the-global-conflict-risk-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 This useful free source has been developed by the Joint Research Centre in cooperation with the Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Mediation Instruments Division...
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Local elections data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/local-elections-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Elections centre established by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Associate Members of Nuffield College, Oxford has a wealth of data on local election results from 1964 onwards.
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Human rights day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/human-rights-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 The United Nations observance of this day occurs every 10 th December. The official website has related resolutions and news for 2018.
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The Geology Award
https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/scholarships-bursaries-discounts/geology
Learn more about the Geology Award, from Metal Focus Ltd.
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Stoneygate Scholarship
https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/scholarships-bursaries-discounts/stoneygate
To honour the founding spirit of our university, we are awarding 100 Centenary Scholarships of £1,000 to undergraduate students beginning their studies in September 2018.
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Women & Global Diplomacy: From Peace Movements to the UN
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/03/women-global-diplomacy-from-peace-movements-to-the-un/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2018 A new webguide from UN Archives Geneva combines primary and secondary sources from both the archives and library of the United Nations at Geneva.
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Police and hate crime
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/31/police-and-hate-crime/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 31, 2018 Do the police investigate hate crime properly? Serious concerns have been raised this week by an HMIC inspection report.
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Ruth First papers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/ruth-first-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 This Digital archive was funded by the School of Advanced Study to put online the papers of South African anti-apartheid activist Ruth First who was assassinated in 1982.
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Rule of Law Index 2017-18
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/rule-of-law-index-2017-18/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 Just released by the World Justice Project . It examines and ranks adherence to the rule of law in 113 nations and jurisdictions worldwide. Evidence is gathered from surveys.