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Talking Europe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/31/talking-europe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2019 A pan-European project , with independent funders such as VoxPop , which aims to engage citizens in online discussions about politics by using an algorithm to match them with someone from...
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Closing the attainment gap
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/02/08/closing-the-attainment-gap/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2021 The Higher Education Policy Institute has been looking at the effect of the Covid pandemic on the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Read about it in the blog post by Gwen Morris .
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2015 top green companies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/2015-top-green-companies/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Find out which global businesses have made the top of the Newsweek ranking in terms of corporate sustainability and environmental impact. Methodology is provided on the website.
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Hope Not Hate: the State of Hate in 2019
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/22/hope-not-hate-the-state-of-hate-in-2019/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 22, 2019 Annual report from the group which monitors online hate , islamophobia, homophobia and the state of the far right in Britain today.
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Robert MacFarlane
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/07/26/4585/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2021 Robert Macfarlane, scientist and writer, has been on Desert Island Discs.
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Oral history: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/oral-history-womens-international-league-for-peace-and-freedom/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Oral Histories is part of the ‘These Dangerous Women’ community heritage project.
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The Giant Bible of Mainz
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/10/07/the-giant-bible-of-mainz/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2022 The Giant Bible of Mainz Digitized by the Library of Congress Famous for being one of the last handwritten by a scribe in 1450s.
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HIV and adolescent girls
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/08/hiv-and-adolescent-girls/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 8, 2014 Girls disproportionately affected by HIV Although the death toll from AIDS has fallen by 30% since 2005, a recent report from UNICEF shows that rates remain high among...
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Global Wage report 2018
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/global-wage-report-2018/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 Just released, the annual flag ship report from the ILO which has data and supporting essays on trends. The feature this year is the Gender pay gap.
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Coronavirus: Feminist viewpoints
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/coronavirus-feminist-viewpoints/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 LSE Women Peace and Security blog posting Fawcett society and other women’s organisations call to make women visible at this time Posted in Management , Risk, Crisis and Disaster...