Social Science sites of the week Archive

In  the news this week COVID 19 continuing to monitor and add sites to the blog http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/2020/07/uk-government-reports-this-week.html The United Nations has issued a statistical report on how the virus is altering the world  It includes very useful sections on social, economic and regional effects with a welfare of statistical data ILO monitor has the latest update on the impact on the world of work including workplace closures and loss of hours The impact of Covid 19 on peace - Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) working paper Interesting analysis on. the current and future possible impact on violence, urban population movements and economic disruption. There is also a consideration of comparisons with  earlier pandemics  I mpact of CovId 19 on vocational education World Youth Skills day 15th July  focused upon the impact on technical and vocational education. This is important as...

Here is  the  latest round up  of  new and interesting  sites  for  social  scientists Continuing to collect and link to key government reports on  the  blog http:// social sciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/ Centre for Longitudinal Studies have released  the  first wave  of   the ir  COVID-19 Survey in Five National Longitudinal Studies.  The  data from  the  four CLS studies taking part ( the  Millennium Cohort Study, Next Steps,  the  1970 British Cohort Study and  the  National Child Development Study) has been de-identified and is available for researchers to download from  the  UK Data Service.  (SN: 8658) . Questions tackled include medical conditions , impact on  health  of   the  lockdown and compliance with  social  distancing. REDASA (REaltime Data Analysis and Synthesis), Covid 19 platfo...

Here is  the  latest update  of  new and interesting  sites   of   the   week   Still adding Links to  the  blog. This  week  some reaction to  the  plan for jobs   http:// social sciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/2020/07/covid-reports-plan-for-jobs.html Covid UK web archive  is creating a special curated collection which will provide snapshots  of  selected websites  the y will be added to a previous pandemic collection on SARS. Some items will only in accessible in  the  BL Reading rooms.  The y include news outlets, political commentators, medical journals and pressure groups US Crisis Monitor   Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)   and  the   Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) at Princeton University   have launched  the     — a joint project that provides  the  public w...