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Opportunity Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/opportunity-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 A map and report released this week by the Sutton trust which explores social mobility in relationship to background and geographical location. alongside it is an interactive map .
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USA 2016 elections: New York Times Resource
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/usa-2016-elections-new-york-times-resource/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 Good use of technology from the New York Times: its Election 2016 bot can send users live news updates.
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Key Note help videos
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/27/key-note-help-videos/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2015 Key Note has produced a suite of help videos; find them at https://www.keynote.co.
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Brexit Statutory Instruments Dashboard
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/26/brexit-statutory-instruments-dashboard/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 26, 2018 Westminster Lens A new tool launched by the Hansard Society . It aims to monitor how many Brexit SIs are being laid before Parliament each week.
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Canadian Gender Gap tracker launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/canadian-gender-gap-tracker-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 Informed Opinions has produced the Gender Gap Tracker in partnership with Simon Fraser University.
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Life expectancy of poor women is decreasing
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/life-expectancy-of-poor-women-is-decreasing/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 Shocking news this week from the Marmot review update which examined health equity in England.
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France: race, class and revolt
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/18/france-race-class-and-revolt/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2023 France: Race, Class, and Revolt A guide which aims to provide an introduction to key academic books, articles and films covering the complex histories and current issues of race and...
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Cyberpolicy portal launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/cyberpolicy-portal-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 The United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) has just launched a Cyber Policy Portal that provides researchers with a single route to quickly get information and...
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Fighting Disinformation Online: Building the Database of Web Tools
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/fighting-disinformation-online-building-the-database-of-web-tools/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 A new report from think tank Rand describes the building of the database which has links to useful sources for researchers on detecting spam, codes, credibility scoring,...
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What do students want from university?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/23/what-do-students-want-from-university/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 23, 2017 Interesting new study released by Comres for Universities UK entitled Education, consumer rights and maintaining trust , focuses on how students view their roles as consumers –...