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• Protests and Suffragettes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/04/21/protests-and-suffragettes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 21, 2023 A project led by artists, activists & archivists who are working with schools and Wikipedia to rediscover and celebrate the women of Scotland and their history.

• Gender-based violence: Africa

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/12/01/gender-based-violence-africa/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2023 Afrobarometer surveys of Africans on gender-based violence This dispatch reports on a special survey module included in the Afrobarometer Round 9 (2021/2023) questionnaire to explore...

• The Beer Game: supply and demand chains

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/23/the-beer-game-supply-and-demand-chains/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2024 The Beer Game was invented in the 1960s by Jay Forrester at MIT. The game was designed to teach about supply and demand chains .

• UK slips in gender equality rankings

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/uk-slips-in-gender-equality-rankings/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Released this week by the World Economic Forum.  The latest gender gap report which rates nations according to disparity between the sexes  in health, education and work.

• NATO Archives Online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/nato-archives-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 The official website now contains early committee documents from 1949-1959, press releases from 1961 onwards and over 300 full text books.

• Demos Integration Hub

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/demos-integration-hub/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 Think-tank Demos has created a special mapping integration area   which is examining evidence of racial and ethnic integration/segregation in Britain today.

• Thousands of women are criminalised needlessly

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/07/03/thousands-of-women-are-criminalised-needlessly/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2015 According to the latest  Report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System large numbers of women are being sent to prison for short term sentences which are...

• Media pluralism and democracy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/25/media-pluralism-and-democracy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 25, 2016 Published this week, the latest Eurobarometer survey of EU citizens on Media pluralism and democracy found that 57% of EU citizens believe that the media in their countries...

• Global Risks in the World 2017

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/13/global-risks-in-the-world-2017/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2017 This week the World Economic Forum released its latest annual report on risk in 2017.   It focuses on five areas, economic, social, technological, geopolitical and environmental.

• Is your press free?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/is-your-press-free/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 Check the 2017 ranking from Reporters without Borders.   Since 2002 it has been rating level of freedom available to journalists in over 180 nations worldwide.