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Open Access book on Higher Education
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/open-access-book-on-higher-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 Higher Education for Good : Teaching and Learning Futures by Laura Czerniewicz (editor) Catherine Cronin (editor).
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Thousands of women are criminalised needlessly
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/07/03/thousands-of-women-are-criminalised-needlessly/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2015 According to the latest Report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System large numbers of women are being sent to prison for short term sentences which are...
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World Wide Income Inequality Database – updated
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/24/world-wide-income-inequality-database-updated/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2017 Latest release 2017 WIID3.
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Social Mobility, or lack of same
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/social-mobility-or-lack-of-same/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 ‘Social mobility policies have made little Impact’ according to the latest Social Mobility Commission report which assesses 20 years of government policy.
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UNU Sustainable Development Explorer
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/unu-sustainable-development-explorer/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 The United Nations University has launched its Sustainable Development Explorer.
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Atlas of Sustainable development Goals 2018
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/01/atlas-of-sustainable-development-goals-2018/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2018 This new visual atlas has just been released by the World Bank It has charts and articles based on the 17 SDGs taken from the World Development Indicators.
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Digital Data Gender Divide
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/digital-data-gender-divide/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 Today worldwide 327 million fewer women than men have a smartphone and can access the mobile Internet. This report from the OECD considers what can be done.
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2019 United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/08/2019-united-nations-peacekeeping-ministerial-conference/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2019 2019 United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference on Uniformed Capabilities, Performance and Protection.
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Principled Aid Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/29/principled-aid-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2019 Launched in March by the Overseas development index , this index ranks bilateral Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors by the extent to which they give aid to countries...
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General News on the Internet Web Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/general-news-on-the-internet-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 This new collection has been launched by the Library of Congress . Since June 2014 they have regularly been web archiving online only general news sites, mainly from USA.