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Direction of AI Innovation in the UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/direction-of-ai-innovation-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 This report from Institute for Public Policy Research outlines the AI innovation landscape in the UK to determine which type of AI deployment is and is not currently taking place.
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Are the social sciences significant?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/09/are-the-social-sciences-significant/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2015 The recent report from the Campaign for Social Science- The Business of people considers the value of social science to policy makers, its present funding and future ways in which it can...
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UNU Sustainable Development Explorer
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/unu-sustainable-development-explorer/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 The United Nations University has launched its Sustainable Development Explorer.
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UoL Historian wins double book prize
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/uol-historian-wins-double-book-prize/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Clare Anderson, Professor of History and Director of the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, has won the Social History Society Book Prize 2024 and the Australian Historical...
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Portal on Gender-Based Violence in Africa
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/20/portal-on-gender-based-violence-in-africa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 Created by Alt Advisory, based in South Africa, this website provides information on and mapping of responses to gender-based violence in African nations.
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Real-time crime index, USA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/20/real-time-crime-index-usa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 An initiative to provide real-time updated data and mappings of crime in the USA. It has been built by AH Datalytics and supported by Arnold Ventures .
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Cuts and austerity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/cuts-and-austerity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 What do the British public think of the cuts and austerity policy? Latest research from IPSO Mori shows 43% think public services are worse than 5 years ago but only 23% say they have...
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Malala
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/13/malala/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2015 R eleased this week, He Named me Mala , the inspirational documentary on the young Nobel prize winner See her historic speech to the United Nations on their YouTube channel also...
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Labour Together
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/labour-together/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Find out more about this new political grouping launched this week by members of the Labour Party to unify and renew the party.
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First Draft News
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/first-draft-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 With the shocking news from Belgium this week, we see the media using eye witness and social media resources.