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‘Domestic violence is a form of arbitrary execution’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/14/domestic-violence-is-a-form-of-arbitrary-execution/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2017 …according to the latest report issued by Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (Gender-sensitive approach to arbitrary killings) – Advance...
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How much debt do students have?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/13/how-much-debt-do-students-have/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 13, 2017 IFS has provided an estimate that students from ‘low-income families graduating with the highest debt levels, in excess of £57,000.
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Westland 100
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/westland-100/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Westland100.org.uk is a good resource for social and economic historians.
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Gender policy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/01/gender-policy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2018 Top 100 influential people for 2018 New from Apolitical : their list of the 100 most influential people in gender policy around the world.
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Which economy is most innovative
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/30/which-economy-is-most-innovative/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2016 Get some facts from the 2016 Global Innovation Index compiled by World intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Cornell University, INSEAD.
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Twitter and racism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/14/twitter-and-racism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2014 Is Twitter full of racist abuse? Read the new report from Demos on anti-social media: http://www.demos.co.
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theHive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/18/thehive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2013 World Bank’s theHive This site has been in beta for a while but is developing well. Register for free to get the most benefits.
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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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What do students want from university?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/23/what-do-students-want-from-university/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 23, 2017 Interesting new study released by Comres for Universities UK entitled Education, consumer rights and maintaining trust , focuses on how students view their roles as consumers –...
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French Presidential elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/24/new-fact-check-sites-for-french-presidential-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2017 Newspapers pay a key role in forming the opinion of the French electorate according to the recent Baromètre des médias, l’intérêt des Français pour...