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• Are emojis sexist?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly  Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for  13 proposed designs to...

• Paragon Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/paragon-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 Institute of Economic Affairs launch Paragon Project The IEA is a free market think tank founded in 1955.

• Crimes against journalists

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/crimes-against-journalists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 November 2 nd was the international day to end impunity about crimes against journalists .

• Comics about social and human rights issues

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/18/comics-about-social-and-human-rights-issues/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 18, 2017 Positive negatives:  a n interesting example of comics being used to communicate key social issues.

• Drag up Chinese film 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/drag-up-chinese-film/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 A project led by University of Nottingham and Queer China explores non-western drag culture, looking specifically at its role in the Chinese community.

• State of the Nation (UK) 2023

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/state-of-the-nation-uk-2023/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 State of the Nation 2023: People and Places The latest annual social mobility index includes a written report and data explorer.

• Yemen Conflict Observatory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/23/yemen-conflict-observatory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2024 Yemen Conflict Observatory   A new site created by ACLED and the Yemen Data project. This site offers up to date data dashboards and mappings of war and violence in Yemen.

• Online US government information and news disappearing: Pew Internet Project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/05/24/online-us-government-information-and-news-disappearing-pew-internet-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2024 Disappearing content from online websites The latest report from the Pew internet project focuses on broken links from US government and news agencies.

• Think Tanks

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/think-tanks/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 An annual snapshot of the state of the think tank  sector worldwide, drawing on data from the Open Think Tank Directory and a sector survey.

• Kae Tempest

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/30/kae-tempest/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2023 Documentary about trans rapper, playwright, novelist and poet Kae Tempest. Follows them on their rap tour but also as they transition. Only available to watch in the UK.