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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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Black Social Worker Oral History Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/02/black-social-worker-oral-history-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 2, 2025 This project is led by staff at Coventry University’s Centre for Peace and Security.
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Smart cities for all toolkit
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/12/smart-cities-for-all-toolkit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2017 Just launched by G3ict and World a free toolkit which aims to eliminate the digital divide for persons with disabilities and older persons in Smart Cities programs worldwide.
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Is there corruption in the UK?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/25/is-there-corruption-in-the-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2018 Yes according to reports and evidence given to the foreign Affairs committee which this week published a review of Russian influence.
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LGBT+ public officials
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/06/lgbt-public-officials/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2022 Queer politics databases from Princeton University New Queer Politics website provides data on openly self-declared LGBT+ officials worldwide.
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Bloomberg: Italy’s economy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/03/bloomberg-italys-economy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2013 Analyzing Italy’s Economy as a New Government is Formed New Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta won the final confidence vote needed from the Italian Parliament to install his government...
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Social surveys
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/08/social-surveys/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 8, 2013 UK Data service variable and question bank. Contains a catalogue of questions asked by major British social surveys since the 1990s. Use to trace relevant surveys by topic.
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19th July 2013 Sol 338
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/07/19/19th-july-2013-sol-338/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 19, 2013 The first results of the atmospheric analyses have been published this week in Science Magazine.
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National Archives of Singapore digital library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/06/national-archives-of-singapore-digital-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2016 Major new additions to this great digital library include recent and historic political resources which would be of great value to scholars of the region.
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Women in developing countries 9% less likely to have a bank account
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/women-in-developing-countries-9-less-likely-to-have-a-bank-account/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make...