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Parental monitoring of internet use
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/15/parental-monitoring-of-internet-use/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2014 Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2014 The latest report from Ofcom presents findings on the use of new media by British children and the role of parents in...
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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.
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World Survey on the Role of Women in Development
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/world-survey-on-the-role-of-women-in-development/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 This report is published every 5 years by UN Secretary-General. The 2014 issue focuses on themes relating to gender and sustainable development.
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World ranking of prosperity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/world-ranking-of-prosperity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index is an annual ranking of 142 countries.
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Where is the best place to be a working woman?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/where-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-working-woman/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 To mark International Women’s day the Economist created a ‘glass-ceiling index’ which uses OECD data to rank factors including gender pay gaps and labour force participation.
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Lobbying in the EU
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/lobbying-in-the-eu/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 Released this week by Transparency International a report on the state of regulation of political lobbying in 19 European nations and by the EU.
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EU budget
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/09/eu-budget/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 9, 2015 Open data about the EU budget can be found on the European Commission’s Budget web pages .
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How much does poverty cost the UK?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/how-much-does-poverty-cost-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 Interesting report this week from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation which examines the cost to UK public services budgets of citizens suffering poverty.
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Trends in Armed Conflict 1946-2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/27/trends-i-armed-conflict-1946-2014/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 27, 2017 Trends in Armed Conflict, 1946–2014 Free access to this factsheet of data recently published by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
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Webcultures archive launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/23/webcultures-archive-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 23, 2017 The project is part of the American Folklife Center, established by Congress to document traditional cultural forms and practices.