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Happiness (and the effects of Covid-19 on it)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/22/happiness-and-the-effects-of-covid-19-on-it/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2021 The World Happiness Report is a survey of the state of global happiness that ranks over 150 countries by how happy their citizens feel themselves to be.
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European Encyclopaedia on National Education Systems
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/european-encyclopaedia-on-national-education-systems/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 EURYPEDIA Useful new tool which has encyclopaedia style entries on the education systems of over 30 nations in Europe.
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8 years of Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/11/8-years-of-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2014 To mark 8 years in existance, Twitter launched the facility to look back in time and trace your first tweet.
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USA Presidential debates new resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/11/usa-presidential-debates-new-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2016 Following on from last week’s list of resources . Here are some more new discoveries.
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Local elections data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/local-elections-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Elections centre established by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Associate Members of Nuffield College, Oxford has a wealth of data on local election results from 1964 onwards.
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In which British city do people earn the most?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/in-which-british-city-do-people-earn-the-most/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Find out this and other fascinating facts and figures on the economic and social indicators of Britain’s major cities by consulting the latest Cities outlook 2016 which has just...
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Parents, teens and digital monitoring
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/parents-teens-and-digital-monitoring/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Find out what percentage of American parents surveyed checked their teenagers Facebook accounts, texts and emails in this enlightening new study from Pew Internet Research Centre .
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Does the UK have a digital skills crisis?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/does-the-uk-have-a-digital-skills-crisis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 According to the latest report by the Science and Technology select committee the ‘ evidence is clear that the UK faces a digital skills crisis’. ‘…up to 12.
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Sri Lanka terrorism threats; get some academic facts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/sri-lanka-terrorism-threats-get-some-academic-facts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 The recent terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka have left the world in shock.
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Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/12/14/comparing-gender-and-media-equality-across-the-globe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2020 GEM, a research project led by the University of Gothenberg, has culminated in an open-access book: Comparing Gender and Media Across the Globe : A cross-national study of the...