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Diversity in HE. Or not…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/diversity-in-he-or-not/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Lies, damned lies and statistics on widening access to Russell Group universities Interesting article in the latest issue of Radical Statistic by Vikki Boliver which criticises the...
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World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/world-development-indicators-wdi-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Just released by the World Bank this major dataset which has over 800 indicators covering more than 150 economies.
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How Facebook news presents different realities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/how-facebook-news-presents-different-realities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A new tool created by the Wall Street Journal Blue Feed Red Feed allows users to examine how different news sources cover political topics. See the Nieman reports.
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Atlas of African Health
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/atlas-of-african-health/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Just released by the WHO includes data on progress towards health-related Millennium Development goals.
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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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Business Multidimensional Poverty Index: Costa Rica
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/business-multidimensional-poverty-index-costa-rica/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 Costa Rica launched the Business Multidimensional Poverty Index developed by the Positive Horizon Association with the technical support of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development...
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How can UK universities improve the teaching of quantitative research methods in the Social Sciences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/how-can-uk-universities-improve-the-teaching-of-quantitative-research-methods-in-the-social-sciences/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 This is the topic of a major new report just published by the British Academy . It calls for a greater emphasis upon developing skills more extensively and earlier in courses.
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Prisons Memory Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/05/prisons-memory-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 5, 2017 The Prisons Memory Archive (PMA) is a collection of 175 filmed oral history recordings from individuals who had a connection with Armagh Gaol and the Maze and Long Kesh Prison during...
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Britain and the EU: two papers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/18/britain-and-the-eu-two-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 18, 2017 Two key papers have been released by the UK government Future customs arrangements: a future partnership paper- HM Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs, and Department for Exiting the...
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End violence against women and girls
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/05/end-violence-against-women-and-girls/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 5, 2017 From 25th November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10th December, Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based...