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• Suicides: UK prisons and beyond

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/27/suicides-uk-prisons-and-beyond/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2017 Shocking news this week that the Ministry of Justice has recorded high levels of suicide in prison and an internal enquiry will be launched.

• 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.

• Kenya and gay rights

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/kenya-and-gay-rights/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 The Kenyan Penal code currently criminalises same sex relations in sections 162 and 165.  A penalty can be 14 years in prison.

• World Press Freedom Day; 3rd May

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/03/world-press-freedom-day-3rd-may/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 3, 2019 The  UNESCO official website 2019 focuses  on the role of the media in the fight against misinformation.

• 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.

• How well do we manage our financial lives?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/23/how-well-do-we-manage-our-financial-lives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2017 Interesting findings on high levels of debt and vulnerability and lack of financial knowledge among the British adult population in the first Financial Lives Survey 2017 released by...

• Homelessness

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/homelessness/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Councils struggling to cope with homeless people.

• 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.

• 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.