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LGBT Hate crime under-reported
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/29/lgbt-hate-crime-under-reported/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 29, 2015 88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police.
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Suffragettes on File
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/suffragettes-on-file/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A new educational resource from the National Archives designed for teachers of Key stage 1,3,5 – Suffragettes on File .
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Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as an ‘unreliable source’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/wikipedia-bans-the-daily-mail-as-an-unreliable-source/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 See the discussion from the Wikipedia reliable sources noticeboard There is also some interesting discussion by the Nieman Lab Also see this recent article on search strategies in...
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Opengendertracking project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/opengendertracking-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.
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Measuring rural poverty
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/29/measuring-rural-poverty/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014 Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT) The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has just released this new tool which can be used to measure rural...
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Poverty and Social Exclusion
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/poverty-and-social-exclusion/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Latest Report from Poverty and Social Exclusion Project The shocking findings on rising levels of poverty in the UK were presented at a conference in London this week.
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Smart phone usage USA 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/15/smart-phone-usage-usa-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2015 According to the Pew Research Center, nearly two thirds of Americans now depend on their smart phones for daily life. Download the Pew survey results for the full data.
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Mapping Early American Elections Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/03/mapping-early-american-elections-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2017 Just launched this major project funded by National Endowment for the Humanities which will provide free access to visualisations on a state level of how Americans voted for their...
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International Women’s Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/08/international-womens-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2018 International Women’s Day is celebrated on the 8 th March to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. This year the theme is Press for Progress.
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Migration Network Hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/04/26/migration-network-hub/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2021 The United Nations Network on Migration was launched recently It aims to provide a place where researcher scan access a variety of resources relating to worldwide migration including...