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Feminist Times
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/feminist-times/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Feminist Times , billed as the new online successor to Spare Rib by its founders, has been launched. http://www.feministtimes.com/ The Founding editor is Charlotte Raven.
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UK Child Poverty
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/20/uk-child-poverty-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2014 Where is child poverty the highest? Find out using the latest child poverty map of the UK from End Child Poverty Campaign Get more more facts from the Child Poverty Action...
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Social Science Bites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/04/social-science-bites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2012 Podcasts of interviews with leading social scientists on different aspects of the social world. Published by Sage. http://www.socialsciencebites.
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Window into China
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/01/window-into-china/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 1, 2013 A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website. It is collecting pieces written in China by Chinese scholars and experts. The emphasis is on security and foreign policy.
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Opengendertracking project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/opengendertracking-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 A project which aims to build software to track gender content in online news stories. The website provides an explanation of the project. This launch page http://opengendertracking.
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Our marathon
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/28/our-marathon/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 28, 2013 Northeastern University Launches Digital Archive of Boston Marathon Bombings Entitled Our Bombing it has crowd sourced journalist materials.
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/26/sub-saharan-africas-knowledge-economy/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2015 Geonet is a new project from the Oxford Internet Institute. It is mapping ICT developments and analysing their potential for economic and social development.
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What institutions do people trust?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/02/what-institutions-do-people-trust/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 2, 2015 The 2015 Edelman Trust Barometer surveyed 33,000 people in 27 countries on their trust in the institutions of government, media, business and NGOs.
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Are millennial workers ‘lazy’ ‘digital addicts’?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/02/are-millennial-workers-lazy-digital-addicts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2015 These are some of the myths challenged by the IBM global study of over 1,700 workers born between 1980-1993.
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Conflict in the Philippines
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/30/conflict-in-the-philippines/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 30, 2015 The new Bangsamoro Conflict Monitoring System from Alert and the World Bank is collecting current and historic data on incidences of political violence in the region.