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• Gender imbalance in film scripts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/gender-imbalance-in-film-scripts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 University of Washington computer scientists have created a tool which analyses film scripts to consider the relative power and agency of characters in films.

• Bedroom tax

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/22/bedroom-tax/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2015 The Final Report from the Evaluation of the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy (often referred to as the ‘bedroom tax’) carried out jointly by CCHPR and Ipsos Mori, has been published.

• Racism in British Universities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/racism-in-british-universities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The  UCU union has just released a survey of its BME members in which shockingly 90% of those who answered reported that they had faced barriers to promotion and over 70%...

• Social media and universities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/07/social-media-and-universities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 7, 2014 Social Media: When Should the University Intervene? An interesting article from Australia currently available free of charge from the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management.

• Arabic Journalism Observatory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/02/arabic-journalism-observatory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 2, 2016 A new initiative of the European Journalism Observatory in partnership with the Media Development Centre in Tunisia, the new AJO will focus on Arab nations, providing a portal...

• Legislative Observatory on Freedom of Expression, Latin America launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/19/legislative-observatory-on-freedom-of-expression-latin-america-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 19, 2018 Legislative Observatory on Freedom of Expression  Latin America launched A special project of the the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE)...

• How can you measure happiness?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/20/how-can-you-measure-happiness/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 20, 2019 The  OECD has discussed methodology  (in terms of OECD nations) in a number of its reports.

• Report on the World Social Situation digitised

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/report-on-the-world-social-situation-digitised/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 The Dag Hammarskjöld Library has recently digitised back runs of the  Report on the World Social Situation (RWSS) published between 1952 to 1993.

• Syrian Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/06/syrian-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2017 This website hopes to document and preserve evidence of human rights abuses in Syria.

• Employers who underpay workers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/employers-who-underpay-workers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 The UK government has released a list of 350 employers who failed to the minimum wage . The page also has facts on the key industrial sectors concerned.