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Women are not represented in Local Government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/women-are-not-represented-in-local-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 According to the latest report issued by the Fawcett Society The proportion of female councillors is still only 34%.
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Foreign Aid Explorer (US)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/11/foreign-aid-explorer-us/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 11, 2019 USAID has developed a new tool which aims to increase aid transparency in relation to US historical foreign aid.
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Parliamentary Procedure handbook now free online UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/parliamentary-procedure-handbook-now-free-online-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 Now freely available via the UK parliament website: Erskine May’s treatise on the law, privileges, proceedings and usage of Parliament (25th edition, 2019).
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Regional imbalances in research and development investment – NESTA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/06/04/regional-imbalances-in-research-and-development-investment-nesta/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2020 The latest report from Nesta, a foundation which focuses on innovation.
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Are the social sciences significant?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/09/are-the-social-sciences-significant/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2015 The recent report from the Campaign for Social Science- The Business of people considers the value of social science to policy makers, its present funding and future ways in which it can...
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Who’s downloading pirated papers?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/whos-downloading-pirated-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Fascinating article from Science magazine which concludes that students and researchers from around the world are. It focuses upon downloads from SCI-HUB.
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Social Mobility, or lack of same
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/social-mobility-or-lack-of-same/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 ‘Social mobility policies have made little Impact’ according to the latest Social Mobility Commission report which assesses 20 years of government policy.
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UNU Sustainable Development Explorer
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/unu-sustainable-development-explorer/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 The United Nations University has launched its Sustainable Development Explorer.
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New suffrage history podcast
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/18/new-suffrage-history-podcast/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 18, 2018 From the LSE: From People’s Dissent to Royal Assent: Sylvia Pankhurst and the struggle for the vote.
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Historic election data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/historic-election-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 For historic elections data see the Elections centre University of Plymouth It provides free access to detailed handbooks of trends and results from 1991-2011 Historic election...