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• Parents, teens and digital monitoring

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/parents-teens-and-digital-monitoring/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Find out what percentage of American parents surveyed checked their teenagers Facebook accounts, texts and emails in this enlightening new study from Pew Internet Research Centre  .

• Are children in the UK exposed to online pornography?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/are-children-in-the-uk-exposed-to-online-pornography/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 And if so, what impact does it have on their lives and relationships?  The NSPCC and the Children’s Commissioner asked Middlesex University to conduct a study.

• Cybersecurity and privacy of data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/16/cybersecurity-and-privacy-of-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2015 The Culture, Media and Sport Committee have launched an inquiry into cyber security following the recent cyber-attack of TalkTalk’s website.

• Country Reports on Terrorism 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/country-reports-on-terrorism-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 Just released by the US state Department, these annual reports have regional and country reports as well as essays reviewing global trends, terrorism safe havens and terrorist organisations.

• University pledges to offer a hundred Sanctuary Awards to displaced people worldwide

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/distance-learning

  Read more about University of Leicester offering one hundred distance learning scholarships to displaced people across the world.

• LGBT tolerance

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/lgbt-tolerence/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 Survey of LGBT Americans- attitudes experiences and values Latest data from Pew research. Findings include more acceptance, however at the same time discrimination continues.

• Poverty in Europe

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/04/poverty-in-europe/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 4, 2014  Poverty Reduction in Europe: Social Policy and Innovation (ImPRovE) Useful project which is focusing upon social policy and poverty in Europe.

• Social media and universities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/07/social-media-and-universities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 7, 2014 Social Media: When Should the University Intervene? An interesting article from Australia currently available free of charge from the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management.

• PSE: UK Poverty and social exclusion

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/17/pse-uk-poverty-and-social-exclusion/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2012 http://www.poverty.ac.uk/ has just been re-launched, with a host of new features to improve access to the project data and findings.

• Web Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/07/web-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 7, 2012 The World Wide Web Foundation has launched the Web Index : http://www.webfoundation.