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• Bloomberg: Facebook Earnings Estimates

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/29/bloomberg-facebook-earnings-estimates/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2013 Facebook reported their earnings on 24 July and analysts’ forecasts diverge due to their outlook for future mobile advertising revenue growth.

• Bloomberg: a merger

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/28/bloomberg-a-merger/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2013 The recently merged mining and commodity trading company Glencore Xstrata reported a $7.7billion write-down of assets previously owned by Xstrata.

• Electoral Integrity

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/27/electoral-integrity/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2014 Electoral Integrity Project An independent international project headed by  University of Sydney and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

• A data revolution for all?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/21/a-data-revolution-for-all/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2014 The UN Secretary-General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data Revolution for Sustainable Development  has just published a report called a World that Counts .

• Women and pension schemes

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/21/women-and-pension-schemes/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2014 The latest annual report from Scottish Widows shows that more British are  women saving into pension schemes.  However women  typically still saved less than men.

• International Day to End Violence Against Women

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/01/international-day-to-end-violence-against-women/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2014 Marked by the UN on 25th November.  This year Orange used a social media campaign for publicity.  S hocking statistics from UNWomen show why this day is necessary.

• Election turnouts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/15/election-turnouts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2015 History Workshop has posted an interesting 1955 anarchist pamphlet on its website called vote for Joe Soap.  It raises the issue for voter non turnout.

• Homosexuality – is it still considered a disease?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/26/homosexuality-is-it-still-considered-a-disease/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2015 Controversy continues concerning the WHO stance towards homosexuality.

• International Civil Aviation Authority: Conflict Zone Information Repository (ICAO)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/04/international-civil-aviation-authority-conflict-zone-information-repository-icao/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2016 A tool developed to provide researchers and the public with provide up-to-date information on potential risks to civil aviation arising from armed conflict.

• Digital Wildfire

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/30/digital-wildfire/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2016 This interesting ESRC-funded project    is examining (Mis)information flows, propagation and responsible governance in the digital world.