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Longer lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/21/longer-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 The UK government has launched a new public health site to provide citizens with easily accessible data about premature death and mortality rates: http://longerlives.phe.org.
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Innovative use of social media in the Pakistan elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/17/innovative-use-of-social-media-in-the-pakistan-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 17, 2013 The Election commission worked with a site called Jaag Pakistan website which aimed to encourage reporting of electoral fraud and violence. This used crowd sourced technology.
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Truthy project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2010/11/12/truthy-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 12, 2010 Aims to analyse and create visual representations of how information is diffused on Twitter.
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2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/23/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2020 Latest annual reviews from the US state department .
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Information on development
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/20/information-on-development/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2012 The African Capacity Building Foundation has a virtual library of documents on poverty reduction in Africa at: http://elibrary.acbfpact.
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Voluntary sector, learning disabilities and autism, and digital inequalities webinars
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/06/13/voluntary-sector-learning-disabilities-and-autism-and-digital-inequalities-webinars/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 13, 2025 The Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Beckett University has launched a series of free online webinars covering tips and guidance.
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Media freedom in Europe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/03/media-freedom-in-europe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2014 Map of Media Freedom in Europe Index on Censorship and Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso are joining forces to map the state of media freedom in Europe.
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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Aswat
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/aswat/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 https://www.aswat.com/en/about A website which aims to offer a place for activists and reformers from the Middle East and Africa to post news and exchange viewpoints.
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Churnalism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/03/04/churnalism/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2011 http://churnalism.