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Universal credit – does anyone benefit?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/universal-credit-does-anyone-benefit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 IFS has conducted an economic analysis into the impact finding tha t it ‘will tend to weaken the incentive for single parents to be in work, and to strengthen the incentive for...
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Prison Reform
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/prison-reform/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 This week the RSA published an interesting scoping paper on the future prison . Browse their website to see other examples discussing the role and future reform of prisons.
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Well-being of the aged
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/10/wellbeing-of-the-aged/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2014 The Global Agewatch Index From HelpAge International ranks nations worldwide on their environment for older persons.
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What is the future of news?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/06/what-is-the-future-of-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 6, 2015 A new report from the BBC considers how the growth of the Internet is changing the way we access news.
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Historical Archives of the European Union
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/historical-archives-of-the-european-union/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 The Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU)are held in the historic Villa Salviati in Florence.
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Do mobile phones effect student learning?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/do-mobile-phones-effect-student-learning/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Interesting new article from Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff, Stevie Munz & Scott Titsworth published online, on 21st May 2015, in Communication Education.
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Arabic Journalism Observatory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/02/arabic-journalism-observatory/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 2, 2016 A new initiative of the European Journalism Observatory in partnership with the Media Development Centre in Tunisia, the new AJO will focus on Arab nations, providing a portal...
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Online Gender Gap Audit published
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/26/online-gender-gap-audit-published/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 26, 2016 The World Wide web Foundation has recently launched its first audit of the difficulties women face at getting online.
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Sexual Identity Data UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/11/sexual-identity-data-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2016 The Office for National Statistics is now collecting sexual identity estimates based on social survey data from the Annual Population Survey (APS) and has published it as a...
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Historic US election results
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/11/historic-us-election-results/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2016 USA Presidential elections. Here are some historical data sources. Official vote counts for federal elections since 1920 from the official sources compiled by the Office of the Clerk.