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Pride of Place
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/pride-of-place/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A great project led by scholars at Leeds Beckett University with the support of English Heritage which is working to produce an interactive map relating to places in England which...
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Arab Development Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/arab-development-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 An initiative of the Coordination Group of Arab, National and Regional Development Institutions (CG), the Islamic Development Bank and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID),...
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Influence of Google algorithms on political news search results
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/29/influence-of-google-algorithms-on-political-news-search-results/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 29, 2017 A major German project is examining the influence of Google algorithms on political news search results.
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Business Multidimensional Poverty Index: Costa Rica
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/09/04/business-multidimensional-poverty-index-costa-rica/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 4, 2017 Costa Rica launched the Business Multidimensional Poverty Index developed by the Positive Horizon Association with the technical support of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development...
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Jewish Britain on Film
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/20/jewish-britain-on-film/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2017 A fabulous free archival film collection launched on the BFI player combines documentaries of Jewish life and culture with early film depictions of Jewish characters.
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Leigh Buchanan Bienen: Works
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/09/leigh-buchanan-bienen-works/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 Academic website from Leigh Buchanan Bienen who has been based at Northwestern University School of Law and specialises in legal history.
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Community bank
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/29/community-bank/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 29, 2024 Dave Fishwick speaks to Radio 4’s Gap Finders about his community bank Burnley Savings and Loans. Listen on BBC Sounds or Box of Broadcasts (both available in the UK only).
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Ill Effects
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/ill-effects/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 A bi-weekly research-informed series on media “influences” hosted by academics Ben Litherland and Richard McCulloch.
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How can UK universities improve the teaching of quantitative research methods in the Social Sciences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/how-can-uk-universities-improve-the-teaching-of-quantitative-research-methods-in-the-social-sciences/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 This is the topic of a major new report just published by the British Academy . It calls for a greater emphasis upon developing skills more extensively and earlier in courses.
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Migration into Italy and Greece
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/migration-into-italy-and-greece/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 EVI-MED – Constructing an evidence base of contemporary Mediterranean migrations EVI-MED is a Middlesex University project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).