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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...

• Academic Freedom Index launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/30/academic-freedom-index-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2020 The Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) is an independent non-profit think tank based in Berlin.

• World Kindness day 13th November

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/16/world-kindness-day-13th-november/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 To celebrate this, some special social sciences resources. The world giving index from CAF  measures giving to charity and willingness to help a stranger amongst individuals.

• World Development Indicators 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/27/world-development-indicators-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2015 The latest annual report and data has just been released by the World Bank.

• Voices Through Time – Coram

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/voices-through-time-coram/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 Coram was founded in 1739 as the Foundling Hospital and supports children in care.

• Voices and Visibility

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/voices-and-visibility/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 The Voices and Visibility poster, http://lgbthistorymonth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Wall-Chart-A0_V7.2_low.

• Social Entrepreneurship

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/07/social-entrepreneurship/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 7, 2014 A new standard to measure social impact is now available from the EU.

• ONS sexual orientation data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/31/3875/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2019 Released this week from the UK Office of National Statistics,  ONS sexual orientation data.

• Graduate starting salaries

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/29/graduate-starting-salaries/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 29, 2014 Graduate starting salaries.  The Complete University Guide has data which compares starting salaries between 2007-2012.

• Social Media and Sexism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/16/social-media-and-sexism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2014 This week a report published by Demos discussed the extent of misogyny on Twitter .  You can read the full text on the website.