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EU high earners
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/22/eu-high-earners/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2013 Where do bankers earn millions? Interesting European Bank central report on 2010-2011 salaries in EU nations.
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Poverty in the UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/poverty-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 The latest Joseph Rowntree Foundation annual monitoring report – 20% of working age adults without children are in poverty.
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Digital divide 2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/digital-divide-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 Latest report from the ITU on the Information societ y gives data on the level of ICT development in 166 economies worldwide. ICT -Eye has more free telecommunications statistics.
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How do recent graduates communicate?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/23/how-do-recent-graduates-communicate/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2015 Does the transition from college to the workplace effect how you communicate? This question was considered in a recent qualitative study by Google staff at the 48th Hawaii...
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1929 election cartoons on women voters
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/1929-election-cartoons-on-women-voters/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 University of Kent archive has fascinating examples of cartoons from newspapers on how women will vote! Posted in Politics , Sociology | Tagged Democracy , Feminism , Politics ,...
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Eurostat statistics explained
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/08/eurostat-statistics-explained/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2013 A guide to European statistics from the European Commission: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.
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Global Risks 2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/17/global-risks-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 17, 2014 Global Risks 2014 Released by World Economic Forum. Analyses 31 global risks.
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Closing the attainment gap
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/02/08/closing-the-attainment-gap/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2021 The Higher Education Policy Institute has been looking at the effect of the Covid pandemic on the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Read about it in the blog post by Gwen Morris .
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The Data Journalism Handbook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/28/the-data-journalism-handbook/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 28, 2014 http://datajournalismhandbook.org/ A free, open-source reference book written after a 48-hour workshop at MozFest 2011 in London. Also available in the library at 070.40285 DAT.
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Are Students addicted to their Mobile Phones?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/are-students-addicted-to-their-mobile-phones/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 Read this interesting exploratory paper. Hooked on Smartphones: An Exploratory Study on Smartphone Overuse among College Students by Uichin Lee et al.