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UK slips in gender equality rankings
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/03/uk-slips-in-gender-equality-rankings/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2014 Released this week by the World Economic Forum. The latest gender gap report which rates nations according to disparity between the sexes in health, education and work.
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British Political Speech Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/british-political-speech-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 A great resource developed by Swansea University. It lists all major speeches for Conservative, Labour and Liberal/Liberal Democrat Party leaders from 1895 onwards.
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NATO Archives Online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/nato-archives-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 The official website now contains early committee documents from 1949-1959, press releases from 1961 onwards and over 300 full text books.
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Is the electoral system broken?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/is-the-electoral-system-broken/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 According to the Electoral Reform Society the UK electoral system is in crisis as the first-past-the-post system does not reflect votes cast.
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International Political Science Association launch a MOOC
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/international-political-science-association-launch-a-mooc/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 Coming soon a range of free politics and International relations courses from this specialist professional society The blog describes how they aim to form a core introductory curriculum.
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DatNav – How to navigate human rights data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/02/datnav-how-to-navigate-human-rights-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 2, 2016 Benetech , Amnesty International, and the Engine Room have created this useful guide for human rights workers and organisations on how to use, present and select data for advocacy work.
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The Hologic Global Women’s Health Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/08/10/the-hologic-global-womens-health-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 10, 2021 Aims to be the first globally comparative study of women’s health. It is based on Gallup world poll data.
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Wellbeing among children and young people
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/10/11/wellbeing-among-children-and-young-people/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2021 Measures bank for Children and Young Peoples Wellbeing What Works Centre for Wellbeing has a developed a metrics framework to measure the subjective wellbeing of children and...
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Be my best self
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/16/be-my-best-self/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 16, 2023 Be My Best Self is a tool developed by Dolphin which aims to help individuals reflect on and understand their accessibility needs.
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Humanitarian Data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/08/19/humanitarian-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2014 The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has launched the Humanitarian Data Exchange to offer a single access point to statistics from the...