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How can you measure happiness?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/20/how-can-you-measure-happiness/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 20, 2019 The OECD has discussed methodology (in terms of OECD nations) in a number of its reports.
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Report on the World Social Situation digitised
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/report-on-the-world-social-situation-digitised/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 The Dag Hammarskjöld Library has recently digitised back runs of the Report on the World Social Situation (RWSS) published between 1952 to 1993.
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Bedroom tax
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/22/bedroom-tax/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2015 The Final Report from the Evaluation of the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy (often referred to as the ‘bedroom tax’) carried out jointly by CCHPR and Ipsos Mori, has been published.
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Racism in British Universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/racism-in-british-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The UCU union has just released a survey of its BME members in which shockingly 90% of those who answered reported that they had faced barriers to promotion and over 70%...
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Social media and universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/07/social-media-and-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 7, 2014 Social Media: When Should the University Intervene? An interesting article from Australia currently available free of charge from the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management.
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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...
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Arabic Journalism Observatory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/02/arabic-journalism-observatory/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 2, 2016 A new initiative of the European Journalism Observatory in partnership with the Media Development Centre in Tunisia, the new AJO will focus on Arab nations, providing a portal...
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On the theme of voting…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/on-the-theme-of-voting/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Vote for Froglet (Clangers 1974) voting film where the dragon campaigns for free soup for all! – free via the great BFI player website which is digitising and offering free to the public...
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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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‘Average income back to pre-recession levels’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/09/average-income-back-to-pre-recession-levels/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2015 According to the latest research from IFS.