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Only 7% of people describe themselves as feminists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/22/only-7-of-people-describe-themselves-as-feminists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2016 According to the results from the 2016 Fawcett society state of the nation report only 4% men and 9% women polled labelled themselves as feminists.
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Documenting Hate News Index launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/29/documenting-hate-news-index-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 29, 2017 Propublica in association with Google News Lab and a data visualization studio called Pitch Interactive has launched a site about hate crimes and bias incidents in the USA.
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Economists on Twitter
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/economists-on-twitter/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 The working paper site RePEc has just launched its own directory of economists who tweet.
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Fast Food Britain
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/28/fast-food-britain/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2017 Analysis by the Guardian has mapped fast food with social inequality and deprivation. One of the key concerns is that access to fast food will increase obesity.
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Socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/01/17/socioeconomic-impacts-of-covid-19-on-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 17, 2022 Women and girls left behind: Glaring gaps in pandemic responses This publication contains and analyses the outcomes of Rapid Gender Assessment surveys (RGAs) on the...
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British-Soviet Relations in the Cold War 1943-53: New declassified documents online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/british-soviet-relations-in-the-cold-war-1943-53-new-declassified-documents-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 The documentary evidence project , which has involved academic input from LSE Ideas and Russian Academy of Sciences, among others, has been examining materials from the Foreign...
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History of Economic Thought revamp
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/23/history-of-economic-thought-revamp/
Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 23, 2016 The website History of Economic Thought re-launched recently thanks to support from the Institute for New Economic Thinking . Run by Gonçalo L.
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Draft Investigatory Powers Bill: parliamentary report launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/draft-investigatory-powers-bill-parliamentary-report-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill has just published a report with 86 recommendations on improving the clarity of the bill.
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World Bank Archives Digitization
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/world-bank-archives-digitization/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 The World Bank Archives website is providing increasing free access to full text papers and documents as part of a digitization policy.
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Stopping hate crime online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/29/stopping-hate-crime-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 29, 2017 The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) published new public statements on how it will prosecute hate crime and support victims in England and Wales.