Social Science sites of the week 2nd June
COVID- 19
We are still keeping up to date with links to recent new report
on Covid
This week more reports and comment relate to the impact and
future of Higher
education. You can view these and more on our scoop.it
page
University
Responses to Covid-19 |-StudentCrowd. This website is compiling a list of
responses from UK universities. Use it to find out what type of teaching
and face to face presence they intend to offer for the next academic year
Guidance
was issued by the UK government on reopening campuses and university buildings
Universities
UKoffered 9 principles to consider to reopen safely
Another
key area for the Uk was contract tracing.
Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic
Response—a report by JHU’s Berman Institute for Bioethics in collaboration
with the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins, university is now
available on open access —it considers ethical, legal, policy, and governance
issues that must be addressed as digital contact tracing technologies, or DCTT,
are developed and implemented. These include whether public health should
override privacy and if private companies should be involved.
It
includes economic and social data on the impact of the virus on a state level
with information taken from the American Community Survey (ACS). Topics
covered include uninsured populations, businesses at risk and data on the age
of the population in certain regions.
Cornovirus :Lost and found- a
Pandemic archive
site
maintained by Rebecca A. Adelman Associate Professor of Media and
Communication Studies at UMBC which is collating stories of suffering and
survival from individuals worldwide on what they have lost and ‘found’ during
lockdown. Fascinating insight for social researchers of the future.
World
Bicycle Day
How
many people cycle in the UK?
The
Uk government has statistics on walking and cycling for 2018 down to
local authority area.
the
proportion of adults cycling at least once a week in England fell slightly from
2015 to 2016 in 12% to 11% in 2017 to 2018
For
Europe see some general facts and figures from the European
Cyclist Federation
Eurostat has a
transport database on road rail transport that give details on
vehicles, passengers and infrastructure.It
also has some survey results on walking and cycling and data on
cycling and road safety
On an international scale
the International Transport Forum (OECD) has reports and policy documents covering cycling
Fia foundation is concerned with philanthropy in road safety and has case studies of safer city cycling.
Fia foundation is concerned with philanthropy in road safety and has case studies of safer city cycling.
Ecocounter
has a world wide cycling index they map journeys cycling at night and
popularity worldwide and in cities. They have a
dashboard monitoring changes in use during the pandemic
Other
discussion of changes can be seen in the World
Resources Institute blog
Does
work make you ill ?
Find
out in the latest annual CIPD Good Work index. Covering the period before the
lockdown and attitudes of UK employees on what constitutes a good job. It
covers 7 dimensions: pay, benefits, work life balance, employee power and more.
A full methodology is provided on the website which also gives the results on
which professions felt they did have a good quality job.
dataUNODC
the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) new data portal makes its reliable
global data on drugs and crime easier to access and visualize. It includes
sections on types of crime (firearms, homicide, violence, sexual crime)
criminal justice systems, prisons and drug related seizures.
‘What
Was Here?’
Fascinating
website and app offered by the East Riding Archives from Yorkshire which
enables users to explore the historic buildings/ landmarks which once
occupied current sites by looking at the marked locations on current maps.the
App is free on Google Play Store and the App Store. There’s also a great For
more details about the ‘Historic
maps’ timeline, see this blog post which details the age of the maps used.
Discover
Egypt's Monuments
Visually
stunning site "Supported by Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and
Antiquities, it invites visitors on a virtual trip through key tourist
areas such as Alexandria, Aswan, Cairo, Giza, Luxor, South Sinai, Wadi Natrun,
Al-Minya, and the Red Sea. The introductions are designed for the public
and includes a children’s section. There are entries for sites, museums and
specific monuments each has photographs, panorama links to panoramas and
tourist advice
Sounds
of shore
Find
out what the British seashore sounded like in 2015 using this British Library
sound archive website based on a crowdsourced audio map of the UK then
devised in conjunction with The British Library, in collaboration with
the National Trust,
the National Trust for Scotland and audioBoom Ltd, It includes waves and
wildlife and more. An app is available
Also
great to explore is the
Coast resource from the British Library which has sounds and
supporting articles.it includes this recording from an early music hall artist
of all
aboard from Margate and articles and associated sounds on the history of the
British seaside
resort
If
you are missing libraries try this fun British
library simulator built by the British Library labs
The
British Library Simulator is a mini game built using the Bitsy game engine,
where you can wander around a pixelated (and much smaller) version of the
British Library building in St Pancras.
Look
out for more positive and inspiring tweets every day
Heather
Dawson
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