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Visualising Palestine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/12/15/visualising-palestine/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2017 This award winning site was originally launched in 2012.
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World Development Indicators 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/27/world-development-indicators-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2015 The latest annual report and data has just been released by the World Bank.
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High Pay
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/11/high-pay/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 11, 2021 On 6th January the High Pay Centre declared that the median FTSE 100 CEO’s earnings for 2021 had surpassed the median annual wage for a full-time worker in the UK.
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Map Tube
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/30/map-tube/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2011 http://www.maptube.org/ A great free resource for viewing and mashing up maps. Basically maps can be overlayed to compare data visually.
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World Development Indicators (WDI) 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/world-development-indicators-wdi-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Just released by the World Bank this major dataset which has over 800 indicators covering more than 150 economies.
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Yemen Conflict Observatory
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/23/yemen-conflict-observatory/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2024 Yemen Conflict Observatory A new site created by ACLED and the Yemen Data project. This site offers up to date data dashboards and mappings of war and violence in Yemen.
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Femicide
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/01/02/femicide/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 2, 2024 Gender-related killings of women and girls The latest UN Women-sponsored report suggests that nearly women 89,000 died because of intimate partner/family-related violence in 2022.
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Migration into Italy and Greece
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/09/migration-into-italy-and-greece/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 9, 2017 EVI-MED – Constructing an evidence base of contemporary Mediterranean migrations EVI-MED is a Middlesex University project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
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Black students and access to HE
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/12/16/black-students-and-access-to-he/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 16, 2022 78% of universities are less likely to make Black students an offer to study than other similar applicants, according to the Ethnic Representation Index (ERI) launched by University...
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Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals, 2020
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/30/atlas-of-sustainable-development-goals-2020/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2020 The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals, 2020 is based upon The World Bank’s World Development Indicators database, as well as from a wide variety of other...