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• Are women under-represented in the news?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/01/are-women-under-represented-in-the-news/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 1, 2015 Yes according to the latest Global Media Monitoring Project  report which found that they represented only 25% of those heard, read about or seen in the news 2015, the same...

• Is your bank under stress?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/is-your-bank-under-stress/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Read the latest report from the Bank of England for 2015 – the tests ‘assess the resilience of UK banks and building societies to a deterioration in global economic conditions.

• World Cities report 2016 launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/world-cities-report-2016-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 From UN Habitat this year’s annual report focuses on the theme of urbanization and development: emerging futures.

• New issue of Museum and Society

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/01/new-issue-of-museum-and-society-2/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 1, 2024 Museum and Society have published a new issue on our journal platform.

• Where is the world’s happiest country?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report .  It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.

• Facebook launches Notify News App

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/facebook-launches-notify-news-app/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 As a dedicated app for iOS, it’s designed to be a central hub for alerts from a variety of partners, including BuzzFeed, CNN, Washington Post, Vogue and the Weather Channel.

• Refugee use of mobile phones

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/refugee-use-of-mobile-phones/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 T he Open University has released a research report on how refugees use smartphones.   It was led by Prof. Marie Gillespie and was carried out in partnership with France Medias Monde.

• Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD) online platform

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/big-allied-and-dangerous-baad-online-platform/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 …from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) University of Maryland.

• Data centres for researchers

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/06/data-centres-for-researchers/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2016 The Economic and Social Research Council are funding three data centres – the Consumer Data Research Centre https://www.cdrc.ac.

• Europe-wide data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/26/europe-wide-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 26, 2016 T he European Data portal has now passed from Beta to permanence.  You can now use it to quickly find news and the latest open data from EU nations.