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World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/world-development-indicators-wdi-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Just released by the World Bank this major dataset which has over 800 indicators covering more than 150 economies.
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The Social Welfare History Image Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/30/the-social-welfare-history-image-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 30, 2017 This great site provides free access to a wealth of images drawn from the collections of VCU Libraries, Union Presbyterian Seminary Library, Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives,...
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Think Tanks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/27/think-tanks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 27, 2023 An annual snapshot of the state of the think tank sector worldwide, drawing on data from the Open Think Tank Directory and a sector survey.
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Consequences
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/02/27/consequences/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on February 27, 2018 The concept of consequences is central to the topic of career management.
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Is Britain fairer?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/is-britain-fairer/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 The Equality and Human Right Commission has just released the 2015 review of the state of human rights in the UK – Is Britain fairer? It measures progress since 2010 in a...
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Women will take 118 years to achieve equality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/women-will-take-118-years-to-achieve-equality/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 A ccording to the World Economic Forum Global Gender report which ranks over 140 economies on health, economic, political and education factors.
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Gender statistics database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/04/gender-statistics-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2016 European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) (an autonomous body of the European Union) has just launched a new gender statistics database for researchers which enables easy comparisons...
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Women’s pay
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/11/womens-pay/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 11, 2016 A report published by the University and College Union on the discrepancy between men’s and women’s pay in the UK HE sector http://www.ucu.org.
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Diversity in HE. Or not…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/diversity-in-he-or-not/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Lies, damned lies and statistics on widening access to Russell Group universities Interesting article in the latest issue of Radical Statistic by Vikki Boliver which criticises the...
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Britain and the EU: two papers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/18/britain-and-the-eu-two-papers/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 18, 2017 Two key papers have been released by the UK government Future customs arrangements: a future partnership paper- HM Treasury, HM Revenue & Customs, and Department for Exiting the...