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• Violence against older people

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/16/violence-against-older-people/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2017 15th June has been designated by the United Nations as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day to increase knowledge and work to eliminate abuse and violence against older people worldwide.

• Men continue to dominate positions of power in British Life

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/20/men-continue-to-dominate-positions-of-power-in-british-life/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2020 According to the latest Fawcett sex and power report .  The situation is even worse for BAME women.

• Digital Incivility

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/digital-incivility/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 The Microsoft Digital Civility Index (DCI) Microsoft has been measuring online behaviour and has found a worrying increase of bad behaviour and digital incivility over the last 4 years.

• Divided Society: Northern Ireland 1990-1998

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/14/divided-society-northern-ireland-1990-1998/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2018 Part of the Northern Ireland Political Collection, curated by the Linen Hall Library, has been digitised.

• UK European Union Referendum web archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/uk-european-union-referendum-web-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 A web archive created by UCLA and hosted by Archive.

• Women and the Internet

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/women-and-the-internet/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Tim Berners–Lee open letter why the Internet is not working for women and girls.

• How much does poverty cost the UK?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/how-much-does-poverty-cost-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 Interesting report this week from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which examines the cost to UK public services budgets of citizens suffering poverty.

• The Graduate Gender Pay Gap

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/16/the-graduate-gender-pay-gap/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 The graduate gender pay gap report from Hepi .

• World Kindness day 13th November

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/16/world-kindness-day-13th-november/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 To celebrate this, some special social sciences resources. The world giving index from CAF  measures giving to charity and willingness to help a stranger amongst individuals.

• Are 15-year-olds prepared to deal with fake news and misinformation?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/are-15-year-olds-prepared-to-deal-with-fake-news-and-misinformation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 A report launched by the OECD this week   Data based on the cross-national PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) surveys.