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• 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.

• Bedroom tax

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/22/bedroom-tax/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 22, 2015 The Final Report from the Evaluation of the Removal of the Spare Room Subsidy (often referred to as the ‘bedroom tax’) carried out jointly by CCHPR and Ipsos Mori, has been published.

• 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.

• 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  .

• 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.

• Sri Lanka terrorism threats; get some academic facts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/sri-lanka-terrorism-threats-get-some-academic-facts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 The recent terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka  have left the world in shock.

• BBC handbook online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/04/26/bbc-handbook-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2021 The BBC Hand Book was first issued in 1928 and published until 1987 when it became annual reports.

• Global Terrorism database updated

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/global-terrorism-database-updated/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 The total number of terrorist attacks and total deaths due to terrorist attacks worldwide decreased by 12% in 2015, according to the latest annual update of the Global Terrorism...

• Gender imbalance in film scripts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/gender-imbalance-in-film-scripts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 University of Washington computer scientists have created a tool which analyses film scripts to consider the relative power and agency of characters in films.

• Are bankers dishonest?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/are-bankers-dishonest/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 According to a study published in Nature, the banking culture encourages dishonesty. Research from YouGov has shown that since the recession public trust in banking has declined.