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• Register to vote

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/21/register-to-vote/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2015 Register to vote in UK national, local and EU elections. More information at http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/register-to-vote  and http://www.ucu.org.

• Fuel poverty and cold homes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/fuel-poverty-and-cold-homes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 Fuel Poverty and Cold homes is worse in Britain t han in other European nations according to a ranking by the Association for the Conservation of Energy .

• Open the Door: social science research for development and a sustainable future

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/22/open-the-door-social-science-research-for-development-and-a-sustainable-future/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2015 New publication from the European Commission .  Download the full text in PDF from the website.

• Gender statistics database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/gender-statistics-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) (an autonomous body of the European Union) has just launched a new gender statistics database for researchers which enables easy comparisons...

• Rosa Parks digital collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/rosa-parks-digital-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 Just released by the Library of Congress, this great new online resource celebrating the life, civil rights achievements and legacy of Rosa Parks whose refusal to give up a seat to a...

• New data visualisation site from the Office for National Statistics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/new-data-visualisation-site-from-the-office-for-national-statistics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 Now in Beta version  Visual.ONS http://visual.ons.gov.uk/ which aims to provide new visually interesting and accessible displays of official statistics.

• Research Ethics Library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/research-ethics-library/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 Now offered in English, this great resource with articles and guidance is from the Norwegian Research Ethics committee.

• Is London the most expensive world City?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/18/is-london-the-most-expensive-world-city/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2016 Find out by downloading the latest Worldwide cost of living Index  2016 from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

• 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...

• How diverse are UK journalists?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/how-diverse-are-uk-journalists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Find out by reading the results of a survey of 7,000 released this week by Reuters Institute.  It is based on a survey of 700 journalists conducted in December 2015.