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Are women under-represented in the news?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/are-women-under-represented-in-the-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Yes according to the latest Global Media Monitoring Project report which found that they represented only 25% of those heard, read about or seen in the news 2015, the same...
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Is your bank under stress?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/is-your-bank-under-stress/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Read the latest report from the Bank of England for 2015 – the tests ‘assess the resilience of UK banks and building societies to a deterioration in global economic conditions.
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels original papers online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/21/karl-marx-and-friedrich-engels-original-papers-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2015 Free access to the archives from the website of the International Institute of Social History. The site has a detailed contents list. Items offered in German.
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Data centres for researchers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/06/data-centres-for-researchers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2016 The Economic and Social Research Council are funding three data centres – the Consumer Data Research Centre https://www.cdrc.ac.
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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.
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‘Privately educated continue to dominate the professions’ in the UK…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/privately-educated-continue-to-dominate-the-professions-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 …according to the latest Sutton Trust report Leading People 2016 .
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Diversity in HE. Or not…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/diversity-in-he-or-not/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Lies, damned lies and statistics on widening access to Russell Group universities Interesting article in the latest issue of Radical Statistic by Vikki Boliver which criticises the...
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World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/world-development-indicators-wdi-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Just released by the World Bank this major dataset which has over 800 indicators covering more than 150 economies.
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Atlas of African Health
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/atlas-of-african-health/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Just released by the WHO includes data on progress towards health-related Millennium Development goals.
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Urban Heritage Atlas
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/26/urban-heritage-atlas/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 26, 2024 The UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas has just been launched.