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• Will people in the UK live shorter lives?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/03/will-people-in-the-uk-live-shorter-lives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2018 This week the newspapers reported that life expectancy is falling or stalled in the UK for the first time since records began, but what are the facts on this? Here are some useful...

• ITUC Global Rights Index 2017

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/23/ituc-global-rights-index-2017/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 23, 2017 The latest annual report from the International Trade Union Federation ranks on the worse countries to work in in terms of trade union and labour protection.

• Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/02/day-to-end-impunity-for-crimes-against-journalists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2018 The United Nations has designated 2nd November as a day against impunity for crimes against journalists.

• Women work for free for 100 minutes per day…

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/women-work-for-free-for-100-minutes-per-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 ccording to the National Management Salary Survey published by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and salary specialist XpertHR.

• Is Your News Fake?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/02/is-your-news-fake/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2017 Concerns about fake news are increasingly dominating the headlines and studies have shown that students often have difficulty evaluating the truth of resources .

• gesisDataSearch: a Data Discovery Index for the Social Sciences

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/20/gesisdatasearch-a-data-discovery-index-for-the-social-sciences/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2018 Now in beta, a new tool which will enable researchers to quickly identify high quality social and economic datasets.

• Telefónica Index on Digital Life

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/04/telefonica-index-on-digital-life/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2016 This new global survey examines progress towards digital life in 34 nations worldwide.

• International Religious Freedom Report 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/22/international-religious-freedom-report-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 22, 2016 Published annually by the US State Department it measures commitment to allow individuals to practice individual religious beliefs in countries worldwide.

• Zero hour contracts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/06/zero-hour-contracts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 6, 2014 The  UK Office for National Statistics  has just released some initial data on the number of individuals employed on zero hours contracts.

• Creative Industries

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/28/creative-industries/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 28, 2014 March of the modern makers: An industrial strategy for the creative industries An interesting report from the Institute for Public Policy Studies.