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• Culture of bullying for UK black academics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/02/08/culture-of-bullying-for-uk-black-academics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2019 …according to a recent survey by UCU union. There are only 25 black female professors in the UK. 0.1 % of the total percentage.

• Gender,  race and money in politics database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/12/gender-race-and-money-in-politics-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 12, 2019 The Center for Responsive Politics has just released a new database  which enables researchers to explore the interaction between gender and race in US campaign funding.

• Modern Slavery Data Stories

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/10/modern-slavery-data-stories/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2019 Created by the  UN University Centre for Policy Research  using datasets from the ILO, IOM, Walk Free Foundation, SmartLab, UK Government, Delta 8.

• Who is the most charitable?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/09/who-is-the-most-charitable/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2019 Find out in the latest edition of  the Charities Aid Foundation UK Giving report  released recently.

• Digital Incivility

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/06/digital-incivility/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 6, 2020 The Microsoft Digital Civility Index (DCI) Microsoft has been measuring online behaviour and has found a worrying increase of bad behaviour and digital incivility over the last 4 years.

• Presidential inaugurations

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/25/presidential-inaugurations/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 25, 2021 US senate has a list of dates off all ceremonies. Many examples have links to digitised images of official photographs or paintings plus ephemera such as tickets. U.S.

• Social Mobility Barometer, 2021

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/social-mobility-barometer-2021/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 The latest annual report from the UK Social Mobility Commission is a poll of what the public think about equality and social mobility.

• European Parliament Research Service (EPRS)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/03/european-parliament-research-service-eprs/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 3, 2016 The EPRS  produces research documents to inform MEPs preparing for votes in the European Parliament.

• Gender pay gap at the BBC

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/gender-pay-gap-at-the-bbc/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/08/carrie-gracie-letter-in-full The BBC’s China editor resigned this week over pay inequality.

• US Federal Register – all issues now online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/04/27/us-federal-register-all-issues-now-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2018 The U.S.