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• The Gender Gap in Internet Access

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/31/the-gender-gap-in-internet-access/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 31, 2017 On 15 th March 2017, the Broadband Commission Working Group on the Digital Gender Divide launched its final report Recommendations for action: bridging the gender gap in Internet and...

• 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.

• Pay and Progression of Women of Colour Literature Review

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/20/pay-and-progression-of-women-of-colour-literature-review/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2021 The Fawcett Society has recently launched a project to review employment and career progression of BAME women in the UK.

• Advertising on Social Media

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/02/advertising-on-social-media/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2018 As a move to greater transparency Facebook has  launche d this searchable database about political adverts appearing on Facebook and who is funding them.

• What happens when gender quotas are introduced for  academic hiring committees?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/18/what-happens-when-gender-quotas-are-introduced-for-academic-hiring-committees/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2019 Interesting working paper covering the situation in France which found that after gender quota in academic hiring committees were imposed in France in 2015 there was a negative impact...

• 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...

• Global Gender Pay Gap report

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/04/15/global-gender-pay-gap-report/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2021 Closing the gender pay gap will take 135 years according to shocking statistics from the  latest Economic Forum report  This report benchmarks the evolution of...

• The Blue Book

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/26/the-blue-book/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2024 The Blue Book collection (1946-1994) is a great factual resource for tracing diplomatic missions to the UN.

• The World of RePEc

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/24/the-world-of-repec/

  Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 24, 2017 A new paper explores the world of  RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) the major database of economics papers.

• AGORA (AI GOvernance and Regulatory Archive)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/agora-ai-governance-and-regulatory-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025   ETO AGORA (AI GOvernance and Regulatory Archive)   Maintained  by the Emerging Technology Observatory (ETO  (a project of the Center for Security and Emerging...