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• Gender imbalance in film scripts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/12/gender-imbalance-in-film-scripts/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2018 University of Washington computer scientists have created a tool which analyses film scripts to consider the relative power and agency of characters in films.

• 20% of women have experienced some kind of sexual assault since the age of 16

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/02/09/20-of-women-have-experienced-some-kind-of-sexual-assault-since-the-age-of-16/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2018 Latest shocking data from the UK Office of National Statistics. This compares with 4% of men. See the methodology and full report on the website.

• What does Warren Buffet think?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/18/what-does-warren-buffet-think/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 18, 2018 Find out in this free online video library released by CNBC . T he  Warren Buffett Archive is an enormous online collection covering business, investing, money and lessons in life.

• Do mobile phones effect student learning?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/do-mobile-phones-effect-student-learning/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Interesting new article from Jeffrey H. Kuznekoff, Stevie Munz & Scott Titsworth published online, on 21st May 2015, in Communication Education.

• Arabic Journalism Observatory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/02/arabic-journalism-observatory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 2, 2016 A new initiative of the European Journalism Observatory in partnership with the Media Development Centre in Tunisia, the new AJO will focus on Arab nations, providing a portal...

• Online Gender Gap Audit published

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/26/online-gender-gap-audit-published/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 26, 2016 The World Wide web Foundation has recently launched its first audit of the difficulties women face at getting online.

• Sexual Identity Data UK

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/10/11/sexual-identity-data-uk/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2016 The Office for National Statistics is now collecting sexual identity estimates based on social survey data from the Annual Population Survey (APS) and has published it as a...

• Is Britain a socially mobile nation?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/18/is-britain-a-socially-mobile-nation/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 18, 2016 Find out with the latest annual report form the Social Mobility Commission.

• European Digital City Index 2016

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/25/european-digital-city-index-2016/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 25, 2016 Launched by Nesta to measure how well cities support start-ups and digital entrepreneurs.  This year it has expanded and now covers 60 cities.

• OECD Gender data enhanced

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/oecd-gender-data-enhanced/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 Last week the OECD introduced the OECD Toolkit for Mainstreaming & Implementing Gender Equality .