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  • Happiness (and the effects of Covid-19 on it)

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2021 The World Happiness Report  is a survey of the state of global happiness that ranks over 150 countries by how happy their citizens feel themselves to be.

  • Well-being of the aged

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2014 The Global Agewatch Index From HelpAge International ranks nations worldwide on their environment  for older persons.

  • 20% of women have experienced some kind of sexual assault since the age of 16

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2018 Latest shocking data from the UK Office of National Statistics. This compares with 4% of men. See the methodology and full report on the website.

  • International Equal Pay Day

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2020 18th September is designated  International Equal pay day Some key documents are:  Human Rights Council resolution on Equal Pay  (2019) ILO Centenary...

  • Ageing

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 Centre for Ageing Better, Community of Practice Resource Library A lottery funded evidence based research organisation.

  • World AIDS day 2015

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 World AIDs Day is December 1st. The 2015 campaign urges people to rethink HIV stereotypes.

  • World Humanitarian Summit

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 This week the World’s First international humanitarian conference opened.

  • An economy for the 1%?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2016 The World Economic  Forum opens at Davos this week with the release of its 2016 Global Risks report .

  • Digital development

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 Digital Planet is an interdisciplinary research initiative of The Fletcher School’s Institute for Business in the Global Context.

  • New award for improving agricultural monitoring from Space

    Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 25 March 2020 Leicester physicists have recently been awarded a Met Office Newton grant to monitor vegetation health and stress from Space Food security has always been a major strategic issue related to...

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