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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/12/02/theodore-roosevelt-digital-library/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 2, 2011 http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/ Free access to a national collection about the life and career of the former American president. It has a timeline of key events.

• UK Education select committee uses Twitter

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/27/uk-education-select-committee-uses-twitter/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2012 Interesting development of the use of twitter by the committee.  They asked the public to pick a question they would ask the Education Minister Michael Gove. http://twitter.

• US election sites

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/13/us-election-sites/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2012 Pew Forum on Religion and Public life now has a site with news and comment on the role of religion in the 2012 presidential election: http://projects.pewforum.

• UN Document Digitisation Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/02/un-document-digitisation-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2012 The UN has created a web page http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/digitization_program.htm  where you can find out about the progress of its document digitisation programme.

• Britain’s 50 New Radicals

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/britains-50-new-radicals/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 The Observer and NESTA have published a list of people and organisations that they believe are changing the UK for the better. Many are community organisations or activists.

• Oral History of the Runnymede Trust 1968-1988

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/oral-history-of-the-runnymede-trust-1968-1988/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 Runnymede is the UK’s leading independent race equality think tank.

• Social Science Bites

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/social-science-bites/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 Podcasts of interviews with leading social scientists on different aspects of the social world.  Published by Sage.  http://www.socialsciencebites.