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                    Manchester Sexuality Summer School online resourcehttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/06/04/manchester-sexuality-summer-school-online-resource/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2020 With the cancellation of face-to-face meetings some resources from this year are now online. They cover the theme Queering the Archive. 
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                    Race and Power: Cambridge University Presshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/11/race-and-power-cambridge-university-press/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 11, 2020 Just launched by Cambridge University press, a free collection of journal articles and book chapters which engage critically... 
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                    Open UNDPhttps://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. 
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                    Little Data book on Genderhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/31/little-data-book-on-gender/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2019 A new handy reference tool from the World Bank for those seeking accessible statistics on gender. It covers 217 countries, tracing progress in closing gender gaps between 2000-2017. 
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                    Reuters Digital News Report 2020https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/03/reuters-digital-news-report-2020/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2020 What impact has COVID 19 had on news consumption? How popular are podcasts? And many more fascinating facts on the amount and type of news consumption worldwide. 
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                    Early UK business womenhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/early-uk-business-women/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Women Who Meant Business : Stories of early businesswomen who broke the mould. A website maintained by independent researcher Lizzie Broadbent. 
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                    Acquisitions by big-tech companieshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/01/27/acquisitions-by-big-tech-companies/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2023 The Gafam empire project developed by DensityDesign Lab and Tactical Tech looks at the acquisitions conducted by 5 tech companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft –... 
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                    Racism and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisishttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/04/21/racism-and-ethnic-inequality-in-a-time-of-crisis/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 21, 2023 Open access book: Racism and Ethnic Inequality in a Time of Crisis https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/display/book/9781447368861/9781447368861. 
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                    UK Archives: Empire Windrush resourceshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/02/uk-archives-empire-windrush-resources/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2023 To mark the 75 th anniversary of the ship bringing Caribbean migrants to the UK the UK archives has released a 7-minute film about their ‘Windrush’ resources. 
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                    Happinesshttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/15/happiness/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2014 Free access to this book from the OECD which provides data on global wellbeing since 1820. Factors covered include political representation, health and gender equality.