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(Dis)Connected Infrastructures and Violence Against Women project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/03/disconnected-infrastructures-and-violence-against-women-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2018 British Academy funded project involving staff from Kings College London, LSE and Indian universities.
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Food security
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/food-security/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 Numbers starving worldwide rising Shocking news from the latest Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report released by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization.
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Kae Tempest
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/30/kae-tempest/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2023 Documentary about trans rapper, playwright, novelist and poet Kae Tempest. Follows them on their rap tour but also as they transition. Only available to watch in the UK.
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How much is an Oxbridge degree worth?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/how-much-is-an-oxbridge-degree-worth/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 Released this week- interesting data in the Earning by Degree report from the Sutton Trust which considers differences in earnings from graduates from different universities and in...
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Open government
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/open-government/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 How open is your government? The latest Global Open Data Index from the Open Knowledge Foundation ranks 97 nations according to the openness of their data on 10 themes: national...
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Mapping English inequality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/20/mapping-english-inequality/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2015 The English Indices of deprivation examine and rank multiple deprivation in England.
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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Peace Women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/peace-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://www.peacewomen.org/ A project of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) which seeks to promote peace and disarmament.
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2012twit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/13/2012twit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2012 http://2012twit.com/ A project which aims to provide real time coverage of the USA 2012 elections from Twitter. It looks at trending topics and recent tweets.
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Map Kibera
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/01/map-kibera/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2011 Another interesting example of citizens and aid agencies using social media for community empowerment/development. Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, is a city suburb.