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Hate Crime USA
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/25/hate-crime-usa/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2012 http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.
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Little Data book on Gender
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/31/little-data-book-on-gender/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2019 A new handy reference tool from the World Bank for those seeking accessible statistics on gender. It covers 217 countries, tracing progress in closing gender gaps between 2000-2017.
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Media use of Images
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/media-use-of-images/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 BagNews provides useful discussion between photojournalists and researchers on the framing of particular events using photographs.
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Big Innovation Centre
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/23/big-innovation-centre/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 23, 2011 http://www.biginnovationcentre.com/ Launched by the Work Foundation and Lancaster University in September 2011. Chair is Will Hutton.
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US Elections and African Americans
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/30/us-elections-and-african-americans/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2012 The NAACP has declared that certain US states have introduced practices which are restricting black voting rights in the report Defending Democracy: Confronting Modern Barriers to...
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Internet access around the world. Who’s connected?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/20/internet-access-around-the-world-whos-connected/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2015 The ITU provides free access to some data on Internet access worldwide. It gives the figures.
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Is working overtime bad for you? Some interesting evidence from Higher education.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/is-working-overtime-bad-for-you-some-interesting-evidence-from-higher-education/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 This article mentioned in the Times Higher last week had the headline Do some overtime (but not too much) It is based on this article: Fontinha, R., Easton, S., & Van Laar, D.
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Dun and Bradstreet book collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/05/19/dun-and-bradstreet-book-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 19, 2023 Library of Congress Dun and Bradstreet digital book collection Online volumes have been expanded to cover most of 1859 to 1879 and 1900 to 1924.
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Bloomberg: Turkey’s inflation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/21/bloomberg-turkeys-inflation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 21, 2013 Turkey has been one of the emerging markets affected by speculation regarding the Fed’s tapering of U.S. quantitative easing.
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Leicester rehabilitation programmes highlighted by national charity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/06-leicester-rehabilitation-programmes-highlighted-national-charity
Two initiatives developed at Leicester’s Hospitals have been cited in the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) new five-point plan to achieve the biggest impact for people with, or at risk of, heart and circulatory diseases.