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Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/24/commitment-to-reducing-inequality-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 24, 2017 New From Oxfam and Development Finance Index, a measure of how committed governments actually are to reducing inequality.
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Black women’s suffrage collection launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/09/25/black-womens-suffrage-collection-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2020 New site from the Digital Public Library of America provides free access to thousands of primary source documents including letters, manuscripts and photos, political posters ...
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MAI Journal of feminist visual culture
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/15/mai-journal-of-feminist-visual-culture/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2018 MAI Journal of feminist visual culture launched.
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Gender, race and money in politics database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/12/gender-race-and-money-in-politics-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 12, 2019 The Center for Responsive Politics has just released a new database which enables researchers to explore the interaction between gender and race in US campaign funding.
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1.1 million abusive tweets sent to women in 2017
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/04/1-1-million-abusive-tweets-sent-to-women-in-2017/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 4, 2019 …according to large-scale research undertaken by Amnesty International and Element AI , a global artificial intelligence software product company.
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She Stands for Peace
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/22/she-stands-for-peace/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2022 She Stands for Peace is a new site created by The UN Office to the African Union ( UNOAU ) with the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government of Sweden.
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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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Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/research-data-journal-for-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 A new free open access journal from Brill and a number of research institutes based in the Netherlands seeks to highlight research based on data.
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Longer lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org.
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Data.gov.in
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/18/data-gov-in/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2012 A new initiative to provide free open access to statistical data from the Indian government.