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• How China Became a Global Information Power

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/17/how-china-became-a-global-information-power/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2017 Beyond the Great Firewall: How China Became a Global Information Power Read the latest online report from Center for International Media Assistance to find out how.

• Chinese investment in Latin America

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/04/11/chinese-investment-in-latin-america/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2017 Free access to this detailed database from Inter-American Dialogue’s  China and Latin America program  and Boston University’s  Global Economic Governance Initiative...

• Foreign Aid Explorer (US)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/06/11/foreign-aid-explorer-us/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 11, 2019 USAID has developed a new tool which aims to increase aid transparency in relation to US historical foreign aid.

• Men continue to dominate positions of power in British Life

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/01/20/men-continue-to-dominate-positions-of-power-in-british-life/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2020 According to the latest Fawcett sex and power report .  The situation is even worse for BAME women.

• Manchester Sexuality Summer School online resource

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/06/04/manchester-sexuality-summer-school-online-resource/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2020 With the cancellation of face-to-face meetings some  resources from this year are now online.  They cover the theme Queering the Archive.

• Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011-12

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/16/times-higher-education-world-university-rankings-2011-12/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2012 The latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings are now available for the 2011-12 academic year.

• How much does poverty cost the UK?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/how-much-does-poverty-cost-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 Interesting report this week from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which examines the cost to UK public services budgets of citizens suffering poverty.

• Never mind the ballots

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/02/never-mind-the-ballots/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2017 BFI Player’s fascinating collection of election films from the early 20 th century to the 1970s They range from the funny Clangers voting cartoon from 1974 (ask your candidate in 2017 –...

• Social Mobility, or lack of same

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/social-mobility-or-lack-of-same/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 ‘Social mobility policies have made little Impact’ according to the latest Social Mobility Commission report which assesses 20 years of government policy.

• Classic Movie Posters Online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/classic-movie-posters-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 Great new digital collection from the Harry Ransom Center  University of Texas at Austin .  They are gradually placing online over 10,000 posters from the 1920s-1970s.