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UK and Business with EU
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/uk-and-business-with-eu/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 Business for Britain A new lobby group campaigning to press the government to renegotiate the UK’s deal with the EU. See news and the signatories on the website.
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IMF gender equality data tool
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/imf-gender-equality-data-tool/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 IMF has conducted the first-ever global review of policymakers’ use of tax and spending policies to promote gender equality and has released an online database toolkit of gender...
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Harry Potter: a history of Magic launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/3453/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 Based on the popular British Library exhibition and a new online exhibition from Google Arts and Culture. It includes the early manuscripts and sketches of author J.K.
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Vaccinate yourself against fake news
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/vaccinate-yourself-against-fake-news/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 Using a new online game developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and Dutch media collective DROG .
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Public Finances – A Historic Overview
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/public-finances-a-historic-overview/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 H elpful new paper from the House of Commons Library: Briefing Paper 8265 by Philip Brien and Matthew Keep, published in March 2018 It covers i ncome and spending from...
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Trade in services
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/trade-in-services/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 OECD WTO Balanced Trade in Services (BaTIS) dataset is now available .
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UK youth unhappiness rising…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/09/uk-youth-unhappiness-rising/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 9, 2018 …according to the latest annual Princes Trust survey of 2,194 16-25 year olds. Get the full results from their website.
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Statelessness Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/17/statelessness-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2018 In March a new tool, the Statelessness Index , to compare national EU government policies towards stateless persons was launched by the European Network on Statelessness It makes...
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How much fake news is there?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/30/how-much-fake-news-is-there/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 30, 2018 A frightening new report from the Oxford Internet institute has a Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation.
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Sexual harassment
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/07/30/sexual-harassment/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 30, 2018 Sexual harassment is an everyday occurrence in the workplace a ccording to the latest report issued this week by the Women and Equalities Commission.