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• Fuel poverty and cold homes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/fuel-poverty-and-cold-homes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 Fuel Poverty and Cold homes is worse in Britain t han in other European nations according to a ranking by the Association for the Conservation of Energy .

• How can UK universities improve the teaching of quantitative research methods in the Social Sciences

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/how-can-uk-universities-improve-the-teaching-of-quantitative-research-methods-in-the-social-sciences/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 This is the topic of a major new report just published by the British Academy .  It calls for a greater emphasis upon developing skills more extensively and earlier in courses.

• Race and Diversity in UK Academia

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/11/race-and-diversity-in-uk-academia/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2014 Race and Diversity in UK Academia An analysis by the  Conversation  shows worrying under representation of black and Asian ethnic groups in UK universities both as students...

• Surveillance Industry Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/surveillance-industry-index-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Just launched by Privacy International and Transparency Toolkit this new tool aims to track the development of the global surveillance industry.

• Everyday sexism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/21/everyday-sexism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2016 A new podcast of a public lecture from Laura Bates, author of the Everyday Sexism Project. It was record at the LSE on 11 th   October 2016 and lasts 1 hour 25 minutes.

• Brazilian Presidential Transition (2018) Web Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/29/brazilian-presidential-transition-2018-web-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 29, 2019 This web archive has been curated by the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation, member libraries of the Latin America Libraries of the Northeast Group.

• Are 15-year-olds prepared to deal with fake news and misinformation?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/are-15-year-olds-prepared-to-deal-with-fake-news-and-misinformation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 A report launched by the OECD this week   Data based on the cross-national PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) surveys.

• Pay and Progression of Women of Colour Literature Review

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/20/pay-and-progression-of-women-of-colour-literature-review/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2021 The Fawcett Society has recently launched a project to review employment and career progression of BAME women in the UK.

• Tool for humanitarian workers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/20/tool-for-humanitarian-workers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2021 Urban-Nexus Environmental Assessment Tool (U-NEAT+) The United Nations launched a free online tool recently which is to help humanitarian aid workers rapidly identify and...

• Peacekeeping Resource Hub

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/24/peacekeeping-resource-hub/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2023 The official UN website on peacekeeping now has an improved design.