Andrew Dunn
Subscribe to Andrew Dunn's postsWomen’s Grassroots Activism Podcast Series
An academic series funded by the United Kingdom Research Innovation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the grant awarded for Agency and Advocacy: Locating Women’s Grassroots Activism in England and Ireland, 1918 to the present. It focuses on experiences in Ireland with oral history accounts of ways in which members of the […]
Human Development Report 2025: A matter of choice: people and possibilities in the age of Artificial Intelligence
Human development progress is experiencing an unprecedented slowdown according to the 2025 Human Development Report released on 6 May 2025 by the United Nations Development Programme. The report shows how Artificial Intelligence could reignite development.
MOVIN’ ON UP: A Social Mobility Comic
The research of Anthony Miro Born expressed in the form of a comic to communicate easily complex ideas to a wider audience. Miro Born is an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Methodology, London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of urban inequality with a […]
Opportunity Index
A map and report released this week by the Sutton trust which explores social mobility in relationship to background and geographical location. alongside it is an interactive map. The map uses rankings of parliamentary constituencies in England which enables researchers to you to explore access to opportunity for disadvantaged young people in different constituencies across England. […]
The BILNAS Archive: Unearthing the Legacies of Female Archaeologists
The British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies Archive is based here at the University of Leicester. This blog posting highlights some online materials relating to several key women archaeologists. A key example is Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon (1906 – 1978), after whom a building on campus was recently named. The BILNAS Archive holds the […]
The World Elite Database project
The WED is an international consortium of scholars working together to develop a new standardized data regime to study and share data about elites across the world. These are defined as rich list members, top CEOs, elected politicians and top bureaucrats, interest groups (business organisations, lobbies, unions). The website is developing data from 15 nations, […]
IMF revamps data portal
The IMF’s new data portal provides streamlined access to international financial data it is easy to explore and has updated API capabilities.
Economic Wellbeing Explorer
This new data resource has been recently launched by Smart Data Foundry. It intends to enable researchers, policy makers and journalists to explore mapped statistical datasets relating to financial well-being at national, regional, and local levels in the UK. Top-level insights will be available for free at a national and regional level, with deeper insights at a local […]
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