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Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/16/creative-industries-policy-and-evidence-centre-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2018 A place for finding evidence on the economic value of the creative industries led by Nesta with a consortium of UK universities including LSE, Birmingham, Edinburgh and the...
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Anti-Semitism growing in the UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/anti-semitism-growing-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 Shocking data this week that anti-Semitic incidents recorded by the Community Security trust continue to grow. Their 2018 annual report lists 1,652.
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Cybervault- How is the US government involved in cyberhacking/ defence and war?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/cybervault-how-is-the-us-government-involved-in-cyberhacking-defence-and-war/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 National Security Archive based at George Washington University has just launched this new specialist site to reveal and monitor the activities of the US government concerning cyberspace.
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Online censorship on social media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/online-censorship-on-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A first report from OnlineCensorship.org, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Visualizing Impact .
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Pride of Place
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/pride-of-place/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A great project led by scholars at Leeds Beckett University with the support of English Heritage which is working to produce an interactive map relating to places in England which...
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Business Multidimensional Poverty Index: Costa Rica
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/business-multidimensional-poverty-index-costa-rica/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 Costa Rica launched the Business Multidimensional Poverty Index developed by the Positive Horizon Association with the technical support of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development...
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Sarah Tarlow
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/author/sat12/
Sarah Tarlow is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Leicester and PI on the Wellcome-funded research programme 'Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse'
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Social Media and Sexism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/16/social-media-and-sexism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2014 This week a report published by Demos discussed the extent of misogyny on Twitter . You can read the full text on the website.
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Crime surveys and more
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/crime-surveys-and-more/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 What do Americans fear? Find out in the Chapman University Survey . Categories include crime and natural disasters.
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Violence against journalists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/16/violence-against-journalists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 16, 2015 Following the Charlie Hebdo atrocity read the statement to the nation from French President Francois Hollande and view this homage A snapshot of newspaper coverage...