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• How the BBC is using WhatsApp

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/07/how-the-bbc-is-using-whatsapp/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 A really interesting case study and webinar made available by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers which discusses use of social media by the BBC World Service to...

• Global State of Freedom of Information is ‘worrying’…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/03/global-state-of-freedom-of-information-is-worrying/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2016 …according to the annual Open Data Barometer from the World Wide Web Foundation.  It says that only 50% of the 92 included countries have ‘reasonably strong’ laws.

• Vacant properties

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/vacant-properties/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Who owns property and leaves it empty? Recently the Grenfell tower tragedy has exposed the scandal of unoccupied foreign owner property in the UK.

• What the world thinks about work

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/what-the-world-thinks-about-work/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 A news item from Kings College London, based on the report What the world thinks about work, ranks the UK low for the importance the population places on work.

• Disability history in TFL transport for London archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/29/disability-history-in-tfl-transport-for-london-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2023 A webinar recording 60 mins .

• Discover Macpherson

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/29/discover-macpherson/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 29, 2023 DiscoverMacpherson.com   A free, fully-searchable website which has been developed by Professor Brian Cathcart and Kingston University.

• Photography of the Ukraine war (contains disturbing images)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/photography-of-the-ukraine-war-contains-disturbing-images/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 Capturing Struggle: Ukraine Through American and Ukrainian Lenses From University of Berkeley, an exhibition documenting the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

• The UK Insecure Work Index 2024

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/the-uk-insecure-work-index-2024/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 The latest annual index from the Work Foundation shows that, in 2023, an estimated 6.8 million people (21.4%) were in severely insecure work, an increase of 500,000 from 2022.

• Dr Kathleen Lynn digital collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/dr-kathleen-lynn-digital-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 This Royal College of Physicians of Ireland maintained website provides information and access to digitised materials relating to the career of Dr Kathleen Lynn , nationalist and chief...

• Disability

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/11/disability/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 11, 2015 Who are the most powerful disabled people in the UK? Find out by consulting the new top 100 power list just compiled by the Shaw Trust.