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• How can you measure happiness?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/20/how-can-you-measure-happiness/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 20, 2019 The  OECD has discussed methodology  (in terms of OECD nations) in a number of its reports.

• A new Regional Gender Equality Monitor

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/29/a-new-regional-gender-equality-monitor/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 29, 2019 A new index which focuses specifically on female disadvantage and achievement at a regional level within the European Union.

• Poverty in the UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/poverty-in-the-uk-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 4.5 million people are more than 50% below the poverty line, and 7 million people are living in persistent poverty in the UK.

• Don’t Look Away: No place for exclusion of LGBTI students (UNESCO)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/dont-look-away-no-place-for-exclusion-of-lgbti-students-unesco/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 International LGBTQI Youth and Student Organisation (IGLYO) and UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report released findings from research and surveys on the situation of LGBTQI...

• Does the UK have a digital skills crisis?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/does-the-uk-have-a-digital-skills-crisis/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 According to the latest report by the Science and Technology select committee   the ‘ evidence is clear that the UK faces a digital skills crisis’. ‘…up to 12.

• What does your vice–chancellor earn?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/what-does-your-vice-chancellor-earn/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 How do pay and perks compare at the UK top universities?  Find out in the annual report from UCU union Transparency at the top?   This was published as part of its...

• Do graduates earn more?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/09/25/do-graduates-earn-more/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2015 Latest analysis from researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Harvard University and the University of Cambridge found that generally they did even during the latest...

• Feminism in the School curriculum

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/18/feminism-in-the-school-curriculum/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2016 This week MPs discussed the proposal for feminism to be dropped from the A Level politics curriculum. See the draft curriculum from 2015.

• Does racial discrimination occur in British Universities?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/21/does-racial-discrimination-occur-in-british-universities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2015 Two recent reports have raised disturbing questions Exploring ethnic inequalities in admission to Russell Group universities. Boliver, V.

• Jeanette Winterson, tax, libraries and Starbucks, Google and Amazon!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/23/jeanette-winterson-starbucks-tax-and-libraries/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 23, 2012 The author Jeanette Winterson delivered the inaugural Reading Agency lecture at the British Library on 19th November.