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• Draft Investigatory Powers Bill: parliamentary report launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/draft-investigatory-powers-bill-parliamentary-report-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill has just published a report with 86 recommendations on improving the clarity of the bill.

• USA Primaries – Useful resources

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/usa-primaries-useful-resources/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 What is a primary? find out with this handy guide to the US electoral system from Vote Smart.

• Is the Treasury being Economic with the truth about Brexit?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/is-the-treasury-being-economic-with-the-truth-about-brexit/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Recently the UK government claimed that a possible UK exit from Europe would have an immediate economic impact.

• Well-being of the aged

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/10/wellbeing-of-the-aged/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2014 The Global Agewatch Index From HelpAge International ranks nations worldwide on their environment  for older persons.

• OECD Gender data enhanced

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/oecd-gender-data-enhanced/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 Last week the OECD introduced the OECD Toolkit for Mainstreaming & Implementing Gender Equality .

• Poverty in the UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/poverty-in-the-uk-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 4.5 million people are more than 50% below the poverty line, and 7 million people are living in persistent poverty in the UK.

• United Nations Hand Book 2019 launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/14/united-nations-hand-book-2019-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 14, 2019 Get useful facts and figures on the working of the UN from this annual publication from the government of New Zealand.

• Grant Thornton Health and Wellbeing Index.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/16/grant-thornton-health-and-wellbeing-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2015 Released this week a major new report which considers a local place based approach  for improving health and wellbeing.

• European Health Consumer Index 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/euro-health-consumer-index-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 This annual report from Health Consumer Powerhouse analyses  European health systems and assesses them on 48 indicators, looking into areas such as patient rights and...

• Digital Transgender Archive launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/19/digital-transgender-archive-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2016 The new Digital Transgender Archive (DTA)  is based in Worcester, Massachusetts at the College of the Holy Cross.