Search

6730 results for: ‘departments sociology’

• Index of Economic Freedom 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/06/index-of-economic-freedom-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 6, 2015 From the Heritage foundation/ Wall Street Journal – an annual ranking of economic policy/ regulation in nations worldwide.  The index equates ‘ freedom’ with economic prosperity.

• 70th Anniversary of the United Nations (next year)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/13/70th-anniversary-of-the-united-nations-next-year/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 A  new online exhibition  is being created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library which celebrates 70 key documents in the history of the UN.

• Tax

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/20/tax/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 20, 2015 In its most recent report Americans for Tax Fairness referred to a ‘Whopper of a tax Dodge’ alleging that Burger King owes $117 million in tax to the US government.

• Media use of Images

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/media-use-of-images/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 BagNews provides useful discussion between photojournalists and researchers on the framing of particular events using photographs.

• How do recent graduates communicate?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/23/how-do-recent-graduates-communicate/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2015 Does the transition from college to the workplace effect how you communicate? This question was considered in a recent qualitative study  by Google staff at the 48th Hawaii...

• UNESCO open data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/unesco-open-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 UNESCO has created a new portal with data on annual expenditure and ongoing projects since 2014.  It includes donor, regional and theme based information.

• Combatting terrorism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/combatting-terrorism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 What are countries doing to combat terrorism? Find out in the latest Counterterrorism Yearbook annual report now available free on the Internet  from the Australian Strategic Policy...

• Global attacks on the press

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/27/global-attacks-on-the-press/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2018 This week Freedom House Reports released Attacks on the Record – the state of world press freedom 2017/18.

• Robert MacFarlane

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/07/26/4585/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2021 Robert Macfarlane, scientist and writer, has been on Desert Island Discs.

• Women and art in London

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/14/women-and-art-in-london/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2025 A project undertaken by Jeremy Smith and Charlotte Hopkins at The London Archives has revealed new information on women artists and publishers in practising in London during 1600s – 1800s.