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  • Full text publications from the United Nations Environment Programme

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/10/full-text-publications-from-the-united-nations-environment-programme/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 10, 2014 The UNEP Knowledge Repository Access full text publications from the redesigned United Nations Environment Programme website.

  • Income and Equality

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/21/income-and-equality/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 21, 2014 The Work Foundation Launch Low Pay Project The site offers  online recent papers  and low pay data. Also on this topic, The Office for National Statistics has long-term wage data.

  • Europe-wide data

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/europe-wide-data/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 T he European Data portal has now passed from Beta to permanence.  You can now use it to quickly find news and the latest open data from EU nations.

  • American Federal reserve launch Facebook page

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/30/american-federal-reserve-launch-facebook-page/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2016 On the first day of its launch the new Facebook page received 11,00 likes but it is was also widely criticised.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Violence cost the world 13.6 Trillion US dollars in 2015

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/violence-cost-the-world-13-6-trillion-us-dollars-in-2015/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 Shocking statistics The latest annual edition of the Global Peace index from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) .

  • World Development Indicators 2015

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/27/world-development-indicators-2015/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2015 The latest annual report and data has just been released by the World Bank.

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