Social Science sites of the week Archive

Here is the latest round up of social science sites of the week Look at the blog for links to  key documents which are currently being added. Covid-19 UNEP reponses focusing on the Environment BBC Media action  – details of programmes it is using worldwide to promote and discuss COVID 19 responsibly African Voices in the Pandemic - a good source are the  Afrobarometer dispatches  which are capturing the experiences of citizens from a number of nations. They include comments on the state of democracy attitudes to lockdowns. Translating COVID-19  is a new series of video conversations exploring the role of translation in the context of the current global health crisis.  What is its role when others are saving lives?  The first video, featuring Prof Nicola Gardini (Italian and Comparative Literature, Oxford), has just been released: It is part of a broader research project called  Translating Illness.  Convened by Dr Mar...

The LSE have launched a blog of academic writing and opinion pieces on  The impact of COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean covid-19 and information literacy: a selective list of useful resources  – a great useful listing for librarians from the Information Literacy Group The WIPO COVID-19 IP Policy Tracker  Created by the World Intellectual Property Office this website provides information on measures adopted by national IP offices in response to the COVID-19 pandemic these include extension and changes of deadlines for registration. Users can also consult new legislation and regulation changes. The COVID-19 Protein Portal Recently launched by a UK consortium.  This website aims is to facilitate more rapid  COVID-19 research by providing high quality protein reagents directly to scientists Florence  Nightingale International Nurses' Day is celebrated around the world each year on 12 May, the anniversary of  Florenc...

Here is the round of new and interesting  sites of the week Covid-19 Still adding papers and reports from the Uk government and plans for easing the lock down Covid-19 Humanitarian The Geneva Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action, a joint centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Geneva, the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene have launched a portal   aiming to  capture examples of how humanitarian organizations are responding to and adapting their existing programs or innovating new programs to address COVID-19 in specific real life contexts. UN Covid-19 data hub Collates and makes available in one place the key statistics from the UN and national governments .These cover health, economy, populations and social data. There are dat...

Covid-19 Still  continuing to add key documents on the blog. Are you a sufferer, accepter or resister? Study by Kings College on personality types during the lockdown based on responses to IPSO  mori  polls Solidarity and Care Really worthwhile Project  from the Sociological Review which aims to document the lived experiences  of individuals during the pandemic highlighting stories of solidarity and new forms of care that can be used to influence policy makers in the future . It is hoping to collect stories from key workers and other members of the public as well as sociology writers. UNDP Human Development reports  have developed “ Global Preparedness and Vulnerability Dashboards ” The report  identifies preparedness  based on a country’s ability “to respond and cope with the impacts of COVID-19 crisis, including a nation’s level of human development, healthcare system capacity and internet access”.  ...