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Which degrees give the most financial rewards?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/which-degrees-give-the-most-financial-rewards/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Interesting research from IFS looking at early career rewards from obtaining a degree.
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Is AI reinforcing Gender Biases?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/is-ai-reinforcing-gender-biases/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 Yes, according to the latest report from UNESCO entitled I’d blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through education The 145-page report feels that there is...
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Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970 – 2019)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/14/atlas-of-mortality-and-economic-losses-from-weather-climate-and-water-extremes-1970-2019/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 14, 2021 WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970 – 2019 ) A rich source of data published recently by the World Meteorological...
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Education in post-conflict and lockdown situations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/11/24/education-in-post-conflict-and-lockdown-situations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2021 Education4Resilience – online platform Site created by UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO), in partnership with the Education Above All...
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Using Data and Analytics in HE
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/29/using-data-and-analytics-in-he/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2022 Data and Analytics- EDUCAUSE 2022 This report from EDUCAUSE is useful in keeping track of recent and emerging technologies relating to data and analytics in...
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Global registry of oil and gas reserves
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/09/30/global-registry-of-oil-and-gas-reserves/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2022 Global registry of oil and gas reserves , provides access in one place to production and emissions with data for more than 50,000 fields.
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Race Today archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/03/22/race-today-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2023 Race Today : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive Race today was first published in 1973 by radical journalists aiming to focus and spotlight...
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Political violence
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/18/political-violence/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2023 ACLED Early Warning Dashboard , a new hub that offers interconnected tools for tracking political violence and demonstrations around the world.
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How much is an Oxbridge degree worth?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/how-much-is-an-oxbridge-degree-worth/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 Released this week- interesting data in the Earning by Degree report from the Sutton Trust which considers differences in earnings from graduates from different universities and in...
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Open government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/open-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 How open is your government? The latest Global Open Data Index from the Open Knowledge Foundation ranks 97 nations according to the openness of their data on 10 themes: national...