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Journalists on Facebook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/01/journalists-on-facebook/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2011 http://www.facebook.
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New Media Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/01/new-media-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 1, 2011 A weekly report that captures the leading commentary of news-focused blogs and social media sites and compares their subjects to that of the mainstream press. http://www.journalism.
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ICM polls archive online (via The Guardian)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/07/25/icm-polls-archive-online-via-the-guardian/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 25, 2011 http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/oct/21/icm-poll-data-labour-conservatives Voting intentions in UK elections since 1984 – (via the Guardian datablog).
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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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Free speech at UK universities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/02/23/free-speech-at-uk-universities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2021 Read the government paper that was released this week and responses from: Office of the Independent Adjudicator WonkHE Universities UK NUS UCU Russell Group Posted in Criminology ,...
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The Cultural Heritage of LGBT Activism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/07/08/the-cultural-heritage-of-lgbt-activism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 8, 2019 A new online exhibit from Europeana. It gives a short history of Pride festivals using items such as photos and badges from Europe’s leading library and museum collections.
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1 million visits to UK Food Banks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/27/1-million-visits-to-uk-food-banks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2015 Trussell Trust has just released the shocking figures that in the last year more than 1 million allocations of food were made by the charity.
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UNESCO open data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/unesco-open-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 UNESCO has created a new portal with data on annual expenditure and ongoing projects since 2014. It includes donor, regional and theme based information.
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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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Global Teacher Status Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/07/global-teacher-status-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 7, 2013 Global Teacher Status Index A new study out this week ranks the status of teachers in various countries.