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  • How can UK universities improve the teaching of quantitative research methods in the Social Sciences

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 This is the topic of a major new report just published by the British Academy .  It calls for a greater emphasis upon developing skills more extensively and earlier in courses.

  • World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Just released by the World Bank this major dataset which has over 800 indicators covering more than 150 economies.

  • Business Multidimensional Poverty Index: Costa Rica

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 Costa Rica launched the Business Multidimensional Poverty Index developed by the Positive Horizon Association with the technical support of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development...

  • Jewish Britain on Film

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2017 A fabulous free archival film collection launched on the BFI player  combines documentaries of Jewish life and culture with early film depictions of Jewish characters.

  • ACLED Conflict Index

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 The ACLED Conflict  Index A new indicator relating to civilian impact of conflict.

  • The World of Walton Burrell: photographer, traveller and deaf pioneer

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2024 The World of Walton Burrell : photographer, traveller and deaf pioneer. An online exhibition maintained by by Suffolk archives, about the Victorian trailblazer.

  • The State of Broadband 2015

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 Latest annual report from  (ITU/ UNESCO) Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development shows that 57% of the world have no broadband access.

  • 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.

  • European Data Portal

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Launched this month, a new resource developed by the European Commission offering free access to over 240,000 datasets from 28 European Nations.

  • Inclusive Growth Monitor

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 New from the Joseph Rowntree Trust a tool for examining and measuring the relationship between poverty and growth .

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