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• 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 .

• Economists on Twitter

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/12/economists-on-twitter/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 12, 2016 The working paper site RePEc has just launched its own directory of economists who tweet.

• On the theme of voting…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/on-the-theme-of-voting/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Vote for Froglet (Clangers 1974) voting film where the dragon campaigns for free soup for all! – free via the great BFI player website which is digitising and offering free to the public...

• Inequality in the UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/05/inequality-in-the-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 5, 2017 Is London the most socially mobile place in the UK?  See the latest report from the Social Mobility Commission.

• 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.

• Global Social Responses to Covid-19 Web Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/global-social-responses-to-covid-19-web-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 The Ivy Plus web archive is creating a record of the  evolution of Covid-19’s social impact since March 2020 by preserving snapshots of key websites from areas of the global...

• Company Data: 2 sites

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/24/company-data-2-sites/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2014 Bank for the Accounts of Companies Harmonized (BACH) database has been upgraded. BACH is managed by the European Committee of Central Balance-Sheet Data Offices.

• Freedom in the World report 2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/31/freedom-in-the-world-report-2014/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2014 Freedom in the World report 2014 Just issued by Freedom House see the rankings for civil liberties in nations worldwide.  The report also has a useful graphic map of freedoms.

• How can social media be used in emergencies?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/22/how-can-social-media-be-used-in-emergencies/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2014 The Communication and Complex Emergencies Project is a collaboration between the University of Adelaide’s Applied Communication Collaborative Research Unit (ACCRU) and the Australian...

• Can social media predict election results?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/26/can-social-media-predict-election-results/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 A recent SSRN paper from Cardiff University developed a model using Twitter and considers how it could be applied to the UK 2015 general election.