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• Human Capital Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/human-capital-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 Human capital Index. World Economic Forum launch the 2013 Human capital index. It aims to measure how well 122 countries value and achieve the full economic potential of their workers.

• World Bank’s Open Budgets portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/10/world-banks-open-budgets-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 10, 2014 World Bank’s Open Budgets portal  aims to provide a one-stop shop to locate national and sub-national regional  budget economic data from about 40 nations involved in the...

• Social Media and Sexism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/16/social-media-and-sexism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2014 This week a report published by Demos discussed the extent of misogyny on Twitter .  You can read the full text on the website.

• SMS and science communication

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/sms-and-science-communication/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 CENTAL is coordinating a project focusing on how text messaging can be used in scientific communication.

• Crime surveys and more

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/crime-surveys-and-more/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 What do Americans fear? Find out in the Chapman University Survey . Categories include crime and natural disasters.

• Violence against journalists

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/16/violence-against-journalists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 16, 2015 Following the Charlie Hebdo atrocity  read the statement to the nation  from French President Francois Hollande and view this  homage A snapshot of newspaper coverage...

• Are economists in touch with ordinary voters?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/12/are-economists-in-touch-with-ordinary-voters/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 12, 2016 Find out by reading the results of this interesting recent survey from the Centre for Macroeconomics.  It also covers Brexit- why did votes ignore the advice of economists.

• 2016 summer Olympics and Paralympics web archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/04/2016-summer-olympics-and-paralympics-web-archives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2016 Free access via the Archive-It service to material collected by the  International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) There are  over 4,000 materials from a range of...

• Which areas of the UK are the most vibrant (economically)?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/06/which-areas-of-the-uk-are-the-most-vibrant-economically/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 6, 2016 Find out by consulting The Vibrant Economy Index, a new resource launched recently by Grant Thornton which aims to measure and rank the economic and social well being or vibrancy of...

• Secret documents online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/secret-documents-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 The new CIA Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Electronic Reading Room can be found at https://www.cia.