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Suffrage 100 resource
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/02/suffrage-100-resource/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2018 Vote 100 website.
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Sexual harassment in the workplace
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 “Urgent action” is needed to better protect victims of sexual harassment in the workplace a fter shocking incidents were reported to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
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First global report on smuggling of migrants
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/22/first-global-report-on-smuggling-of-migrants/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 22, 2018 Just released by UNODC, the first report on the nature and impact of the smuggling of migrants . It includes infographics and data on numbers and routes plus profiles.
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Election Access Observation Toolkit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/19/election-access-observation-toolkit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 19, 2018 The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), along with the Disabled Person’s Organization (DPO) has developed an Election Access Observation Toolkit.
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Women in data science
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/22/women-in-data-science/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2019 A resource from Stanford University. The Women in Data Science initiative was launched in 2018.
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Stonewall 50th commemoration web archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/stonewall-50th-commemoration-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 Just launched by Columbia University, a searchable web archive of 50 th anniversary commemorations of the Stonewall uprising. The Stonewall uprising a key event in LGBT history.
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The impact of online misinformation on U.S. COVID-19 vaccinations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/04/the-impact-of-online-misinformation-on-u-s-covid-19-vaccinations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2021 Paper from arxiv with the following findings: consistently, negative opinions toward vaccines are correlated with misinformation.
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Russian Books of the 18th Century
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/19/russian-books-of-the-18th-century/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2022 Open access collection from the University of Illinois Slavic Reference Collection.
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LGBTI in developing countries
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/lgbti-in-developing-countries/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Surveys, big data, and experiments: how can we best learn about LGBTI development outcomes? Interesting new Research policy working paper from the World Bank which highlights the...
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Oxfam launch land rights website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/oxfam-launch-land-rights-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 Oxfam have now gathered together reports, news and indicators on all aspects of their work on land rights on a new website .