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The Africa Desk
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/03/africa-desk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2012 http://www.africadesk.ac.uk/ A new portal designed for African studies scholars.
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Passport Analytics – for Economics and Finance
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/23/passport-analytics-for-economics-and-finance/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 23, 2017 Passport https://www2.le.ac.uk/library/find/databases/p/passportgmid has added analytics to its portfolio which allow you to do modelling in certain given situations.
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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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Surveillance and Citizenship Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/20/surveillance-and-citizenship-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 20, 2015 Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society is an ESRC project based at Cardiff University.
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1866 suffrage petition 150th anniversary
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/1866-suffrage-petition-150th-anniversary/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 It is 150 years since The Women’s Suffrage Committee, formed by Barbara Bodichon, collected 1,500 signatures on a petition for women’s suffrage in 1866 and it was presented to parliament...
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Living Home Standard launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/21/living-home-standard-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 21, 2016 Shelter in conjunction with user research from IPSO Mori has launched a new Living Home Standard based on 42 criteria which members of the public feel should be used to assess housing...
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A Cross-country Database of Fiscal Space
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/a-cross-country-database-of-fiscal-space/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 New for economic and economic historian researchers from the World Bank: a database of fiscal data which can be downloaded in Excel or Stat format.
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European Forum of Official Gazettes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/02/17/european-forum-of-official-gazettes/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2012 http://circa.europa.eu/irc/opoce/ojf/info/data/prod/html/index.
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Margaret Thatcher Foundation online papers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/30/margaret-thatcher-foundation-online-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2012 http://www.margaretthatcher.org/ The Foundation has released online private papers http://www.margaretthatcher.org/archive/1981cac4.