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• Influence of Google algorithms on political news search results

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/29/influence-of-google-algorithms-on-political-news-search-results/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 29, 2017 A major German project is examining the influence of Google algorithms on political news search results.

• Modern slavery

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/modern-slavery/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 The commercial company Maplethrorpe have just released their 2017 modern slavery index . You can view a summary on their website.

• Are 15-year-olds prepared to deal with fake news and misinformation?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/17/are-15-year-olds-prepared-to-deal-with-fake-news-and-misinformation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2021 A report launched by the OECD this week   Data based on the cross-national PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) surveys.

• Pay and Progression of Women of Colour Literature Review

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/20/pay-and-progression-of-women-of-colour-literature-review/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2021 The Fawcett Society has recently launched a project to review employment and career progression of BAME women in the UK.

• Quality of Life in the EU

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/quality-of-life-in-the-eu/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 Eurostat has just released a new series of statistics which present a multi-dimensional measure of well-being, considering social as well as economic factors.

• Congressional Record for the 1980s

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/12/congressional-record-for-the-1980s/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 12, 2016 Now available online via GOV Info   the bound volumes from volume 127 (1981) to volume 147 (2001).

• What happens when gender quotas are introduced for  academic hiring committees?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/18/what-happens-when-gender-quotas-are-introduced-for-academic-hiring-committees/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2019 Interesting working paper covering the situation in France which found that after gender quota in academic hiring committees were imposed in France in 2015 there was a negative impact...

• Economic Wellbeing Explorer

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/economic-wellbeing-explorer/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 This new data resource has been recently launched by Smart Data Foundry.

• Violence cost the world 13.6 Trillion US dollars in 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/violence-cost-the-world-13-6-trillion-us-dollars-in-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 Shocking statistics The latest annual edition of the Global Peace index from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) .

• 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.