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• LGBTI in developing countries

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/lgbti-in-developing-countries/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Surveys, big data, and experiments: how can we best learn about LGBTI development outcomes? Interesting new Research policy working paper from the World Bank which highlights the...

• Vacant properties

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/vacant-properties/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Who owns property and leaves it empty? Recently the Grenfell tower tragedy has exposed the scandal of unoccupied foreign owner property in the UK.

• Israel and Palestine

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/israel-and-palestine/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 AN updated fact sheet on the conflict in Israel and Palestine    Get the statistical facts and chronological timeline from the ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event...

• Press Freedom

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/press-freedom/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 The Press Freedom Index 2013 http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html launched by Reporters Without Frontiers.

• Open UNDP

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/15/open-undp/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 15, 2013 http://open.undp.org/ New open data website from the United Nations Development Programme. Get official data on over 6,000 development projects in 177 countries worldwide.

• Opengendertracking project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/opengendertracking-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.

• Humanitarian crises app

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/humanitarian-crises-app/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 New United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Humanitarian Kiosk iOS app  A new application for geting the latest news direct from the UN about...

• British Political Speech Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/british-political-speech-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 A great resource developed by Swansea University. It lists all major speeches for Conservative, Labour and Liberal/Liberal Democrat Party leaders from 1895 onwards.

• What institutions do people trust?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/what-institutions-do-people-trust/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 The 2015 Edelman Trust Barometer  surveyed 33,000 people  in 27 countries  on their trust in the institutions of government, media, business and NGOs.

• Are millennial workers ‘lazy’ ‘digital addicts’?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/are-millennial-workers-lazy-digital-addicts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 These are some of the myths challenged by the  IBM global study of over 1,700 workers born between 1980-1993.