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Mapping NGOs website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/mapping-ngos-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 This is the website of a research project run jointly by the Global Development Institute (GDI, University of Manchester) and the Sheffield Institute for International Development .
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How students engage with the news
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/26/how-students-engage-with-the-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2018 A report from the US based Project information literacy which has implications for librarians and educators concerned with information literacy and the fight against fake news.
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Global Slavery Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/globval-slavery-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Global slavery index. Published this week by the Walk Free Foundation.
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Women: political and economic participation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/women-and-political-and-economic-participation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 Beijing +20 The UN has launched a new website to mark the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a visionary agenda for women’s empowerment.
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Did the polls get the referendum results right?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/did-the-polls-get-the-referendum-results-right/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 Here are some useful starting points for tracing the polls. Remember to check the methodology used.
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Is working overtime bad for you? Some interesting evidence from Higher education.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/is-working-overtime-bad-for-you-some-interesting-evidence-from-higher-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 This article mentioned in the Times Higher last week had the headline Do some overtime (but not too much) It is based on this article: Fontinha, R., Easton, S., & Van Laar, D.
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Are bankers dishonest?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/are-bankers-dishonest/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 According to a study published in Nature, the banking culture encourages dishonesty. Research from YouGov has shown that since the recession public trust in banking has declined.
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Are young people the ‘new poor?’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/are-young-people-the-new-poor/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 The latest LSE research has revealed that despite better qualifications, young people in their 20s have suffered a higher percentage of falling wages than older generations.
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Will you be worse off than your parents?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/22/will-you-be-worse-off-than-your-parents/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2016 Get some recent data from the latest inter-generational fairness Index published by the Inter-generational Foundation.
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British-Soviet Relations in the Cold War 1943-53: New declassified documents online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/british-soviet-relations-in-the-cold-war-1943-53-new-declassified-documents-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 The documentary evidence project , which has involved academic input from LSE Ideas and Russian Academy of Sciences, among others, has been examining materials from the Foreign...