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A.Sivanandan 1923-2018, thoughts and writings.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/11/04/a-sivanandan-1923-2018-thoughts-and-writings/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2022 A.
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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...
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Is AI reinforcing Gender Biases?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/is-ai-reinforcing-gender-biases/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 Yes, according to the latest report from UNESCO entitled I’d blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through education The 145-page report feels that there is...
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The Scottish Suffragette Cities Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/09/the-scottish-suffragette-cities-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2019 New website from Robert Gordon University which aims to map the struggle for the women’s vote in Scotland.
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How can UK universities improve the teaching of quantitative research methods in the Social Sciences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/how-can-uk-universities-improve-the-teaching-of-quantitative-research-methods-in-the-social-sciences/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 This is the topic of a major new report just published by the British Academy . It calls for a greater emphasis upon developing skills more extensively and earlier in courses.
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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.
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Europe-wide data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/europe-wide-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 T he European Data portal has now passed from Beta to permanence. You can now use it to quickly find news and the latest open data from EU nations.
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How has the Internet changed scholarly communication?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/20/how-has-the-internet-changed-scholarly-communication/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2015 Useful briefing from the Association of Research Libraries journal which gives a basic overview changes of trends in academic publishing since 1990s, covering journals online books...
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Enhanced access to data from International Telecommunications Union
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/16/enhanced-access-to-data-from-itu-international-telecommunications-union/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2012 http://www.itu.int/ The ITU collects data on mobile phones, internet use and access worldwide. Its website offers some free statistics.
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World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/17/worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2012 http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-executive-summary.