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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...
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First Draft Coalition launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/first-draft-coalition-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 A new group of social media journalists, whose members include Bellingcat , Eyewitness Media Hub , Emergent , Meedan , Reported.
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Paragon Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/paragon-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 Institute of Economic Affairs launch Paragon Project The IEA is a free market think tank founded in 1955.
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Crimes against journalists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/crimes-against-journalists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 November 2 nd was the international day to end impunity about crimes against journalists .
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Who gives to Higher Education institutions?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/who-gives-to-higher-education-institutions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 Download the latest annual Ross- Cass survey of charitable giving to universities which is carried out by the by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in...
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Comics about social and human rights issues
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/18/comics-about-social-and-human-rights-issues/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 18, 2017 Positive negatives: a n interesting example of comics being used to communicate key social issues.
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How much is an Oxbridge degree worth?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/how-much-is-an-oxbridge-degree-worth/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 Released this week- interesting data in the Earning by Degree report from the Sutton Trust which considers differences in earnings from graduates from different universities and in...
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Open government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/open-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 How open is your government? The latest Global Open Data Index from the Open Knowledge Foundation ranks 97 nations according to the openness of their data on 10 themes: national...
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Access to Middle East and Islamic resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/15/access-to-middle-east-and-islamic-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 15, 2013 http://amirmideast.blogspot.co.uk/ Useful blog highlighting open access resources in this area. Journals covering all subject areas. Created by USA libraries.
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Bloomberg: UK, credit ratings and CDS
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/03/bloomberg-uk-credit-ratings-and-cds/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2013 Visualizing the U.K.’s CDS Following Fitch Downgrade The U.K.’s AAA credit rating was reduced by Fitch on April 19.