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• What happens when gender quotas are introduced for  academic hiring committees?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/18/what-happens-when-gender-quotas-are-introduced-for-academic-hiring-committees/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2019 Interesting working paper covering the situation in France which found that after gender quota in academic hiring committees were imposed in France in 2015 there was a negative impact...

• World Kindness day 13th November

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/16/world-kindness-day-13th-november/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 To celebrate this, some special social sciences resources. The world giving index from CAF  measures giving to charity and willingness to help a stranger amongst individuals.

• Mapping English inequality

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/20/mapping-english-inequality/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2015 The English Indices of deprivation examine and rank multiple deprivation in England.

• Open government

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/22/open-government/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2014 How open is your government? The latest Global Open Data Index from the Open Knowledge Foundation ranks 97 nations according to the openness of their data on 10 themes: national...

• Which economy is most innovative

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/30/which-economy-is-most-innovative/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2016 Get some facts from the 2016 Global Innovation Index compiled by World intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)  Cornell University, INSEAD.

• Is there corruption in the UK?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/25/is-there-corruption-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2018 Yes according to reports and evidence given to the foreign Affairs committee which this week published a review of Russian influence.

• Remote-learning readiness

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/11/24/remote-learning-readiness/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2021 Ensuring Equal Access to Education in Future Crises: Findings of the New Remote Learning Readiness Index (UNICEF) The report introduces the  Remote Learning Readiness Index...

• Humanitarian Response Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/11/humanitarian-response-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 11, 2011 http://daraint.

• Global Peace Index 2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/global-peace-index-2014/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Global Peace Index 2014 released This is compiled by The Institute for Peace and Economics and  ranks 162 nations according to levels of peacefulness.

• 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.