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• Feminism in the School curriculum

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/18/feminism-in-the-school-curriculum/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2016 This week MPs discussed the proposal for feminism to be dropped from the A Level politics curriculum. See the draft curriculum from 2015.

• Does racial discrimination occur in British Universities?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/21/does-racial-discrimination-occur-in-british-universities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2015 Two recent reports have raised disturbing questions Exploring ethnic inequalities in admission to Russell Group universities. Boliver, V.

• Banned Books and Academic Freedom

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/13/banned-books-and-academic-freedom/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 Sage has launched a new collection of free-to-read research of articles from its academic journals highlighting the effects of academic censorship on democracy, social-emotional...

• History of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/history-of-the-anti-apartheid-movement-in-britain/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014 Forward to Freedom:  The History of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain 1959-1994.

• ‘Removing womens’ inequality would add $12 trillion to global growth’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/30/removing-womens-inequality-would-add-12-trillion-to-global-growth/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2016 …according to the latest report from Mckinsey.   It estimates that gender inequality has vast economic costs.

• Equal pay day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/09/equal-pay-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2012 A report from the Fawcett society claims a backward step for women in closing the gender pay gap in the UK. See other campaign material on their website for more reports and statistics.

• Aid Worker Security database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/aid-worker-security-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 https://aidworkersecurity.org/ Produced by the Humanitarian Outcomes, a team of specialist consultants, this database provides statistics on violence against aid workers.

• Sources of data on human rights in the Middle East/ Arab world

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/sources-of-data-on-human-rights-in-the-middle-east-arab-world/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 Arab Barometer – Established in 2005 by scholars in the Arab world and the United States. Data on political attitudes of Arab citizens.

• UNESCO Open Access Publications

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/24/unesco-open-access-publications/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2013 UNESCO publications on open access Get free access to high quality publications from UNESCO which has a agreed a new open access policy.

• The World Bank Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/30/the-world-bank-socio-economic-database-for-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2012 http://sedlac.econo.unlp.edu.ar/eng/statistics.php Maintained by CEDLAS (Universidad Nacional de La Plata) http://cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.