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• World Peace Index 2017 launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/14/world-peace-index-2017-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2017 Find out which is the world’s most peaceful country using the latest annual index from Visions of Humanity. It also summaries worldwide and regional trends.

• Trends monitor

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/30/trends-monitor/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 30, 2018 Trends Monitor is a research project being undertaken by Media Matters for Democracy to identify and document potential manipulation of political hashtags and conversations on Twitter in...

• BPS Occupational Digest

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/bps-occupational-digest/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 A new blog and email produced by the British Psychological Society, Users can get RSS feeds or sign up to receive regular research updates covering psychology in the workplace.

• Happiness

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/15/happiness/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2014 Free access to this book from the OECD which provides data on global wellbeing since 1820.  Factors covered include political representation, health and gender equality.

• BBC Rewind: Northern Ireland

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/09/20/bbc-rewind-northern-ireland/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2021 A website from the BBC Rewind provides free access to BBC archive news programmes reflecting life and events in Northern Ireland from 1952 to December 1979.

• Global Voices Online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/global-voices-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://globalvoicesonline.org/ has many citizen journalism postings from around the world there is a special section for the Egyptian protests http://globalvoicesonline.

• Open Secrets.org

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/22/open-secrets-org/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2011 http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/index.php From the Center for Responsive Politics.  Includes data for the US 2012 presidential elections .

• LGBTI in developing countries

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/lgbti-in-developing-countries/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 Surveys, big data, and experiments: how can we best learn about LGBTI development outcomes? Interesting new Research policy working paper from the World Bank which highlights the...

• A Week in the World of Waugh

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/07/18/a-week-in-the-world-of-waugh/

  Posted by isabellacaldwell in Waugh and Words on July 18, 2014 David Wilson Library When journeying to Leicester on Monday morning, I was somewhat daunted by the prospect of the future week, a week where I would be experiencing the working life of the research associates...

• In her time

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/27/in-her-time/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2018 Her Time is a new UCL-based journal and podcast created by students which seeks to explore online aspects of gender history.  It was launched in March 2018.