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Connecting Africa
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/13/connecting-africa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 Connecting-Africa is supported by the Netherlands African Studies Association (NVAS). It provides free access to digital resources on Africa.
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Think Tanks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/think-tanks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 An annual snapshot of the state of the think tank sector worldwide, drawing on data from the Open Think Tank Directory and a sector survey.
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How much is an Oxbridge degree worth?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/how-much-is-an-oxbridge-degree-worth/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 Released this week- interesting data in the Earning by Degree report from the Sutton Trust which considers differences in earnings from graduates from different universities and in...
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Open government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/open-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 How open is your government? The latest Global Open Data Index from the Open Knowledge Foundation ranks 97 nations according to the openness of their data on 10 themes: national...
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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European Data Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/european-data-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Launched this month, a new resource developed by the European Commission offering free access to over 240,000 datasets from 28 European Nations.
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Working household poverty is worse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/working-household-poverty-is-worse/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 According to the latest annual poverty and social exclusion report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which provides data and analysis for the last 5 years .
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Digital Asia Hub – Launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/digital-asia-hub-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 A new independent, non-profit Internet and society research think tank based in Hong Kong.
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Inclusive Growth Monitor
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/inclusive-growth-monitor/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 New from the Joseph Rowntree Trust a tool for examining and measuring the relationship between poverty and growth .
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The British press made a battle out of the miners’ strike
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/09/the-british-press-made-a-battle-out-of-the-miners-strike/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2016 Analysis from The Conversation: https://theconversation.