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24% of students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds have experience racial harassment in UK universitie
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/24-of-students-from-ethnic-minority-backgrounds-have-experience-racial-harassment-in-uk-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 Shocking new report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission has these findings. Get the methodology and facts by downloading the report.
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UK Doughnut – sustainable living standards
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/09/uk-doughnut-sustainable-living-standards/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2015 A new report from Oxfam considers how the UK can achieve decent living standards while remaining environmentally sustainable.
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Gender balance in politics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/gender-balance-in-politics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 A crowdsourcing game called Gender balance is trying to gather information about women in politics. The data collected will then be fed into the everypolitician site.
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Catalan Elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/05/catalan-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 Get links to resources covering the results and their implication for any possible independence from this elections blog.
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Russian interference in US elections?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/russian-interference-in-us-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 View the recordings from Senate committee hearings into Russian interference in the 2016 elections via C-Span video library.
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quickQuote
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/09/25/quickquote/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2015 A new open source tool from the Times which has been designed to allow journalists to upload, search and get transcriptions of quotes from online videos which they can then...
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Australian poll on same–sex marriage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/20/australian-poll-on-same-sex-marriage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2017 Official results from the Australian Bureau of statistics of the postal survey. Explanation of the process. And commentary from the Sydney Morning Herald news.
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Hansard Corpus
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/hansard-corpus/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 Website containing nearly every speech in the British Parliament 1803-2005 with some linguistic analysis. Developed by the University of Glasgow. http://www.hansard-corpus.
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JFK Assassination records
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/03/jfk-assassination-records/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2017 A large batch of JFK assassination classified document s has been released by the USA government to supplement The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records collection.
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OfficialPapersUK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/09/15/officialpapersuk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 15, 2015 The OfficialpapersUK blog was launched today.