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2018 State of the World’s Volunteerism Report: The thread that binds
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/03/2018-state-of-the-worlds-volunteerism-report-the-thread-that-binds/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 3, 2018 The United Nations has just released its annual report on volunteering. It has estimations on the extent of volunteering by nation and gender.
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UK Web Archive Gender Equality Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/10/uk-web-archive-gender-equality-collection/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 10, 2018 The UK web archive aims to preserve for posterity websites with UK domain addresses. It has a number of special themed collections.
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Paternity Leave
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/paternity-leave/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Do Fathers Want Shared Paternity Leave? Interesting story this week from the BBC that fewer than 1 in 50 fathers are taking the new extra paternity leave.
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Are corporate crimes serious?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/are-corporate-crimes-serious/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 Yes according to a new report Redefining criminality published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies which considers public attitudes to corporate and individual offending.
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NI Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/04/ni-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2016 Brendan Duddy Papers at NUI Galway. A new digital collection.
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Is social care in crisis?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/11/is-social-care-in-crisis/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2016 PSA Commission on Care Report Towards a New Deal for Care and Carers was launched last week.
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What does the Church of England think of same sex marriage?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/17/what-does-the-church-of-england-think-of-same-sex-marriage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 17, 2017 Controversy, The House of Bishops Report: We need each other , has arisen over a recent paper to the synod which was presented as a general paper to the synod GS 2055...
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Demographic data UK
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/22/demographic-data-uk/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2013 By 2016 most parents will be unmarried Latest birth data from the National office of Statistics sees an increase in children born to unmarried parents.
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Radiotopia launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/14/radiotopia-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 14, 2014 PRX have launched Radiotopia: http://www.radiotopia.fm/ a new podcast network with support from the Knight Foundation.
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The UK and Migration
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/07/the-uk-and-migration/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 7, 2014 Impacts of Migration on UK Native Employment: An Analytical Review of the Evidence The Home Office finally released this week the controversial report by Ciaran Devlin and Olivia...