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• World Autism awareness week

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/08/world-autism-awareness-week/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 8, 2019 World Autism awareness week The  United Nations  has also designated 2nd April World Autism Day.  Read the original resolution and get facts from the website.

• Andrew Dunn: Page 220

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/220/

  Academic Librarian.

• Fat Cat salaries: read and weep!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/08/fat-cat-salaries-read-and-weep/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 8, 2016 Fat Cat Tuesday On the 5 th January 2016 top bosses salaries  FTSE CEOS will already have exceeded the average annual pay of many workers (£27,645) according to the High Pay...

• What makes cities competitive?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/08/what-makes-cities-competitive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 8, 2016 Find out by downloading a recent working paper from the World Bank – Kilroy, A.F.L., Mukim, M., Negri, S. (2015) Competitive cities for jobs and growth : what, who, and how .

• ‘Women still under-represented in UK HE management positions’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/women-still-under-represented-in-uk-he-management-positions/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 The latest report from the  non profit organisation Women Count indexes the representation of women as governors, Chairs and Vice-Chancellors in each of the 166 HEIs in the UK that...

• Bank of Mum and Dad fund 25% of Mortgages

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/bank-of-mum-and-dad-fund-25-of-mortgages/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 According to the latest research report from Legal and General and Centre for Economics and Business research (CEBR) in 2016 the high cost of housing means that 25% of all mortgage...

• Occupy Wall Street protest site

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/occupy-wall-street-protest-site/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://occupywallst.org/ This website is a good example of the Internet being used to organise protests. The website includes user generated maps, video streams and organisers materials.

• American Presidential Nominations

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/07/american-presidential-nominations/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 7, 2012 The American presidency project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/nomination.php has a database of presidential nomination acceptance speeches from 1880 onwards.

• Radiotopia launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/14/radiotopia-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2014 PRX have launched Radiotopia: http://www.radiotopia.fm/  a new podcast network with support from the Knight Foundation.

• UK Child Poverty

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/06/04/uk-child-poverty/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 4, 2014 Save the children Fund report on UK Child Poverty The new report  A Fair start for every child: Why we must act now to tackle child poverty in the UK   forecasts shocking rates...