Social science sites of the week - 24th July 2020
In
the news this week COVID 19
continuing
to monitor and add sites to the blog
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
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
Impact
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 The latest Global Employment Trends for Youth 2020: Technology and the future of job showed that since 2017, there has been an upward trend in the number of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET).
The impact of Covid 19 on school closures is mapped on this UNESCO site
In Britain this House of Commons Library Briefing series map the impact of the lockdown and reopening on HE and FE sectors
In Europe this website has details / reflection on the possible impact on TVet systems
The OECD also has an excellent site with summaries from TVET system responses in OECD nations, there are useful links to their websites
TUC online card catalogue archives
The TUC library
has added to its online offering researchers may be interested to know it has
digitised its annotated
card catalogue which is crucial for understanding British trade
union history
This adds to their pre existing online
collections
- The Union Makes Us
Strong
An introduction to the history of the TUC and the trade union movement, including a Timeline of union history, the full text of the annual TUC Congress Reports 1868-1968, and hundreds of - Winning
Equal Pay
history of the struggle for equal pay for women through videos and digitised documents
Posters
from the Irish civil rights movement
A great new online exhibition from the Working
class Movement Library
It includes images from 1969 posters made
in Belfast and by London Poster Workshop.
Background context is provided by a recording of
event
which took place on 26 May 2020, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=veZmyNW7Nz8.
ArcGIS Living Atlas Indicators of the Planet launched
Esri is creating
this resource in association with Microsoft, National Geographic, and the
United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network,it focuses on 18
indicators including drought, wildfire, covid 19; rising sea levels and
offering near real time data from NOAA, UN Environment Programme, and US Geological Survey,
Users can configure layers on GIS maps. For
the full press releases see here
New from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in partnership with the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, on police use of surveillance technologies, such as drones and facial recognitin in USA . It includes city and local sheriff level data on a map. Methodology is provided on the map
Her Century Scottish Women on Film
Available free from the
National Library of Scotland
this great compilation film encompasses womens experiences in the 20th Century.
It includes clips from many great examples covering work and the domestic
experience and gender attitudes. A real gem is the red skirts on Clydeside
which covers women and the rent strike in Glasgow it also includes a fab clip of
the Womens library in the basement of the City of London Poly
The GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index (SRI)
How good is the representation of LGBTQ
characters in major Hollywood films? Find out in the
latest annual report from GLAAD which maps eight major motion picture studios
during the 2019 calendar year. GLAAD researched films released
by Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, STX Films, United
Artists Releasing, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios and Warner Bros., as
well as films released by four subsidiaries of these major studios. It looks at
number of characters, time coverage and quality and type of depiction
To
celebrate the reopening of the British Library
View
their digitised manuscripts at home Shakespeares
only surviving playscript can now be viewed online
View
the daily positive updates via twitter
And
social science current awareness
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