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Anti-Semitism growing in the UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/anti-semitism-growing-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 Shocking data this week that anti-Semitic incidents recorded by the Community Security trust continue to grow. Their 2018 annual report lists 1,652.
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IFS launch UK inequality review
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/15/ifs-launch-uk-inequality-review/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 15, 2019 Announced recently by IFS, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and chaired by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Angus Deaton .
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Baker Institute China Oil Map
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/18/baker-institute-china-oil-map/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2019 Just released by The Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy this detailed mapping of the oil infrastructure of China pulls together in one...
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Black women’s suffrage collection launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/25/black-womens-suffrage-collection-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2020 New site from the Digital Public Library of America provides free access to thousands of primary source documents including letters, manuscripts and photos, political posters ...
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Autonomy in the Workplace
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2016/09/07/autonomy-in-the-workplace/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on September 7, 2016 The life of a student, be it undergraduate or postgraduate, is often seen as one where the individual has significant autonomy in there day to day activities.
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Cybervault- How is the US government involved in cyberhacking/ defence and war?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/08/cybervault-how-is-the-us-government-involved-in-cyberhacking-defence-and-war/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2016 National Security Archive based at George Washington University has just launched this new specialist site to reveal and monitor the activities of the US government concerning cyberspace.
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Aid data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/aid-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Financial tracking service United Nations UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA).
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Online censorship on social media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/online-censorship-on-social-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A first report from OnlineCensorship.org, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Visualizing Impact .
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Canadian Gender Gap tracker launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/canadian-gender-gap-tracker-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 Informed Opinions has produced the Gender Gap Tracker in partnership with Simon Fraser University.
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High Pay
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/11/high-pay/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 11, 2021 On 6th January the High Pay Centre declared that the median FTSE 100 CEO’s earnings for 2021 had surpassed the median annual wage for a full-time worker in the UK.