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• How much do school holidays cost?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/31/how-much-do-school-holidays-cost/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 31, 2018 According to the latest annual survey from the UK based Family and Childcare Trust the  average price of holiday childcare is £133 per week in Britain.

• (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.

• Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/innovative-use-of-social-media-in-the-pakistan-elections/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This  used crowd sourced technology.

• Bloomberg: stock valuations with historical context

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/04/bloomberg-stock-valuations-with-historical-context/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2013 EMC Corp. announced a quarterly dividend on May 30 and expanded its stock buyback plan at a time when it was trading 15 percent below its 12-month high.

• theHive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/18/thehive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2013 World Bank’s  theHive This site has been in beta for a while but is developing well. Register for free to get the most benefits.

• Corruption

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/corruption/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Exporting corruption: Progress report 2013: assessing enforcement of the OECD Conventionon combating bribery Full text report from Transparency International V iew other earlier...

• Government at a glance

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/1434/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Government at a glance. The OECD publishes a report measuring government performance across the 34 member countries of the OECD.   They include service provision and delivery.

• Two new Chinese Internet archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/12/09/two-new-chinese-internet-archives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 9, 2013 …from the Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, UCLA .  Both capture snapshots of chinese websites periodically since 2012, preserving the content and can be searched by keyword.

• Twitter and racism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/14/twitter-and-racism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2014 Is Twitter full of racist abuse? Read the new report from Demos on anti-social media: http://www.demos.co.

• Latest Living Wage Commission report released

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/latest-living-wage-commission-report-released/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 The main Commission website has background on its aims and accounts from members of the public about experiences of life on low pay.