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• The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2018

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/09/the-commitment-to-reducing-inequality-index-2018/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 9, 2018 Which countries do the most to help reduce poverty? The second annual index from Oxfam.

• Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/16/creative-industries-policy-and-evidence-centre-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2018 A place for finding evidence  on the economic value of the creative industries led by Nesta with a consortium of UK universities including LSE, Birmingham, Edinburgh and the...

• What should we do about Fake News?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/what-should-we-do-about-fake-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 This  week   the   LSE Truth, Trust and Technology Commission launched its report.

• Rise Up: digital archive of Canadian Feminism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/rise-up-digital-archive-of-canadian-feminism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 Covering the period 1970-1990.   This resource from a women’s collective has a wealth of information.

• Ban Ki-moon’s Archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/ban-ki-moons-archives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 The archives of former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon have been made available online via the website of the United Nations Archives and Records Management Section.

• GEMMES

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/gemmes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 An economic modelling tool designed by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD)  for understanding the effects of climate change on the economy.

• The Zuckerberg Files

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/04/the-zuckerberg-files/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 4, 2019 Not new but recently upgraded, time to revisit The Zuckerberg Files  maintained by UW-Milwaukee Center for Information Policy Research .

• Culture of bullying for UK black academics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/culture-of-bullying-for-uk-black-academics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 …according to a recent survey by UCU union. There are only 25 black female professors in the UK. 0.1 % of the total percentage.

• The World Wide Web is 30 years old

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/18/the-world-wide-web-is-30-years-old/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2019 On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for what would become the World Wide Web to his boss at the European Organization for...

• Does social media make you happy or unhappy?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/20/does-social-media-make-you-happy-or-unhappy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 20, 2019 This week the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Media and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Inquiry: “ Managing the Impact of Social Media on Young People’s  Mental...