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Hub for equal representations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/01/24/hub-for-equal-representations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2022 Created by a team of leading Economics researchers based at the London School of Economics, The Hub focuses on presenting research to find finding effective ways to improve...
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African American Student Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/29/african-american-student-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2022 Database – African American Student Project University of Michigan resource covering 1853-1970 which documents and maps black students enrolled at the university.
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BBC Rewind: Northern Ireland
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/20/bbc-rewind-northern-ireland/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2021 A website from the BBC Rewind provides free access to BBC archive news programmes reflecting life and events in Northern Ireland from 1952 to December 1979.
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Pacific Manuscript Bureau
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/16/pacific-manuscript-bureau/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2022 Pacific Manuscript Bureau is useful tool for researchers of ethnography and colonial, social, political history of the region.
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Gender-based violence: Africa
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/12/01/gender-based-violence-africa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2023 Afrobarometer surveys of Africans on gender-based violence This dispatch reports on a special survey module included in the Afrobarometer Round 9 (2021/2023) questionnaire to explore...
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DatNav – How to navigate human rights data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/02/datnav-how-to-navigate-human-rights-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 2, 2016 Benetech , Amnesty International, and the Engine Room have created this useful guide for human rights workers and organisations on how to use, present and select data for advocacy work.
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Observatory of Algorithms with Social Impact
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/23/observatory-of-algorithms-with-social-impact/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2020 A listing from the Eticas Foundation which is indexing algorithms used by search engines and organisations and classifying them by type location and impact.
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Equality in Higher Education report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/equality-in-higher-education-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 Equality in higher education: statistical report 2017 from the Equality Challenge Unit The website of this organisation also has an excellent Athena Swan database of case studies on...
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More data portals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/more-data-portals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 O pen Data Inception has mapped over 1600 open data portals around the world. Hover over the maps to get statistics on different nations.
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Africa Management Hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/africa-management-hub/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 Africa UN Knowledge Management Hub is developed by the United Nations Development System in Africa to provide a single place to access to documents on African regional collaboration...