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Black Social Worker Oral History Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/black-social-worker-oral-history-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 This project is led by staff at Coventry University’s Centre for Peace and Security.
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Electronic Maps to Assist Public Science
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/10/electronic-maps-to-assist-public-science/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2014 Emaps Project A project funded by the EU which commenced in 2011.
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Where is the best place to be a working woman?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/where-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-working-woman/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 To mark International Women’s day the Economist created a ‘glass-ceiling index’ which uses OECD data to rank factors including gender pay gaps and labour force participation.
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Compare the NHS with other health services
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/compare-the-nhs-with-other-health-services/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 Economist Intelligence Unit has just published a report which compares the NHS with healthcare services in 30 other OECD nations.
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Eurostat
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/09/eurostat/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2015 The statistical office of the European Union provides high quality statistics on the European economy, demographics, industry, trade, environment and technology.
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2016 Global Food Security Index findings report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/2016-global-food-security-index-findings-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 This is the fifth edition of an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) study, commissioned by DuPont, w hich covers issues of affordability, availability and quality of food across 113...
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Bloomberg: Macroeconomic data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/22/bloomberg-macroeconomic-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 22, 2013 The U.K. economy grew 0.3 percent in the first quarter, avoiding a triple dip recession. Bloomberg functions show much of the recovery comes from the services industry.
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US elections and politics pages from Google
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/06/us-elections-and-politics-pages-from-google-and-you-tube/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2012 http://google.com/elections/ed/us/results Useful for tracking progress in the 2012 presidential race! Includes the 2012 political calendar from pbs http://www.pbs.
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Media freedom in Europe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/03/media-freedom-in-europe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2014 Map of Media Freedom in Europe Index on Censorship and Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso are joining forces to map the state of media freedom in Europe.
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Trends in Armed Conflict 1946-2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/27/trends-i-armed-conflict-1946-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 27, 2017 Trends in Armed Conflict, 1946–2014 Free access to this factsheet of data recently published by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).