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Parents, teens and digital monitoring
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/29/parents-teens-and-digital-monitoring/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 29, 2016 Find out what percentage of American parents surveyed checked their teenagers Facebook accounts, texts and emails in this enlightening new study from Pew Internet Research Centre .
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Chatham House ‘Best think tank in Western Europe’ 2015…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/19/chatham-house-best-think-tank-in-western-europe-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2016 …according to the 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report an annual ranking produced by The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Liberating History Podcasts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/04/15/liberating-history-podcasts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2024 A series of 60 minute podcasts created by the Liberating Histories research team which is supported by Northumbria University, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The LSE Women’s...
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Violence against women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/07/violence-against-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 7, 2014 Violence against Women in the UK According to a recent survey conducted by the European Union’s Agency for Fundamental Rights which was published this week, the UK is ranked...
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Poverty in Europe
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/04/04/poverty-in-europe/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 4, 2014 Poverty Reduction in Europe: Social Policy and Innovation (ImPRovE) Useful project which is focusing upon social policy and poverty in Europe.
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Are you addicted to your smartphone?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/07/are-you-addicted-to-your-smartphone/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 According to the latest Ofcom communications market report more people use smartphones than laptops. 33% regard it as their most used device for going online rather than a laptop.
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Surveillance and Citizenship Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/20/surveillance-and-citizenship-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 20, 2015 Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society is an ESRC project based at Cardiff University.
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1866 suffrage petition 150th anniversary
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/10/1866-suffrage-petition-150th-anniversary/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2016 It is 150 years since The Women’s Suffrage Committee, formed by Barbara Bodichon, collected 1,500 signatures on a petition for women’s suffrage in 1866 and it was presented to parliament...
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Al Jazeera News game
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/11/al-jazeera-news-game/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2016 Interesting example of a game produced by Al Jazeera English which aims to raise questions about investigative journalism and cybersecurity: HACKED: Syria’s...
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A Cross-country Database of Fiscal Space
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/a-cross-country-database-of-fiscal-space/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 New for economic and economic historian researchers from the World Bank: a database of fiscal data which can be downloaded in Excel or Stat format.