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Digital development
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/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.
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Documenting Hate News Index launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/29/documenting-hate-news-index-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 29, 2017 Propublica in association with Google News Lab and a data visualization studio called Pitch Interactive has launched a site about hate crimes and bias incidents in the USA.
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Inclusive books for primary school children
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/inclusive-books-for-primary-school-children/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 Inclusive Books for children A website that offers recommendations by age category and theme for books that are inclusive and reflect the modern world.
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Liberating Histories: now has periodicals guide
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/liberating-histories-now-has-periodicals-guide/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 Liberating histories website expands with periodicals guide. This site highlights feminist magazine titles written by and for women during 1970s-1990s.
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Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/12/15/eighteenth-century-political-participation-electoral-culture/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2023 Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) A project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council to research how people participated...
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Autograph letter collection, second batch
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/04/autograph-letter-collection-second-batch/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2023 A second batch of letters from the Autograph Letter Collection totalling 3,200 letters. This collection contains letters of prominent correspondents dating from 1851 to 1975.
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Living wage level raised
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/living-wage-level-raised/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 The level of the living wage was raised by 40p an hour this week to £8.25.
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Universal credit – does anyone benefit?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/universal-credit-does-anyone-benefit/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 IFS has conducted an economic analysis into the impact finding tha t it ‘will tend to weaken the incentive for single parents to be in work, and to strengthen the incentive for...
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Prison Reform
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/prison-reform/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 This week the RSA published an interesting scoping paper on the future prison . Browse their website to see other examples discussing the role and future reform of prisons.
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The Paths to Equal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/28/the-paths-to-equal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 28, 2023 The Paths to Equal – new twin indeces on women’s empowerment and gender equality based on data for 114 countries, including data on the progress towards the Sustainable...