Social Sciences sites of the week 26th November 2020

 Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites for social scientists 

 

Continuing to update the blog with Covid resources and responses

 

in the news this week the comprehensive spending review 

 Labour Party response 

Labour MP- A Dodds

IFS reaction

TUC reaction from unions

CBI business response

British Chambers of Commerce response

Institute of Directors

Federation of small Businesses

BMA doctors

See links to the Uk government papers and original submissions from organisations including health and educational groups

http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/2020/11/spending-review-november-2020.html

 

Family Matters: How the 20th Century changed family life

https://www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitions/family-matters

a new great online exhiviton from Europeana which includes materials from Europe's national libraries and archives. It covers  a series of topics including legal changes, changing attitudes towards marriage, kinship, changing gender roles and  perceptions of childhood. the exhibition has text, images and audiovisual content,

 

 

The Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA)
Arts & Humanities Research Council funded research project led by Dr Sabrina Qiong Yu (Newcastle University), with Co-Investigators Professor Chris Berry (King’s College London) and other collaborators. Covers production and circulation of film  and issues relating to the role of the state with regard to film in China. The website is building a  a database of Chinese independent films,  a research archive of writing on Chinese independent films and gathering oral histories from independent filmmakers and critics.

 

The Tomintoul and Glenlivet Development Trust Digital Archive

A fascinating archive  which holds more than 400 pictures and 71 sound clips, 

Lottery funded project which preserves community oral history memories and images (mainly post world war two) from  villages in the Cairngorms  Scotland . Topics covered include whisky industry, rural life and Second World War

 

 

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2020 
 is based uponThe World Bank’s World Development Indicators database, as well as from a wide variety of other relevant data sources from scientists and other researchers worldwide. it comprises great  data visualizations around the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. highlights trends for selected targets within each goal and introduces concepts about how some SDGs are measured. Where data is available, it also shows the emerging impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the SDGs

 

Elizabeth Robinson Montagu’s correspondence. 

Great site hosted by Swansea University which aims to produce an annotated edition of the writings of blue stocking intellectual Elizabeth Robinson Montagu (1718-1800)

the originals  are held in the British Library, the Bodleian, Aberdeen, Manchester and other archives including the Huntington Library, California.  Less than a quarter of these documents have been previously published.  They include fascinating correspondence with key intellectuals of the time. The site has wonderful tweets for entries of the day which are fascinating 


 The Suffrage postcard project

The Suffrage Postcard Project (SPP) is a feminist digital humanities initiative from the University of South Florida in collaboration with other institutions. It aims to offer data, archiving curation and teaching from a feminist perspective it enables uses to browse over 100 pro and anti suffrage postcard online. Collections include: international woman suffrage alliance peoples history museum and other commercial publishers. the site has information in feminist methodology and a bibliography 


 

See more positive and inspiring tweets on the website


https://socialsciencecurrentawareness.wordpress.com/

 

Heather Dawson

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites for social scientists   Artificial intelligence some key report are linked to on our scoop it page on data and society https://www.scoop.it/topic/data-and-society Includes latest  Ada Lovelace institute on public attitudes and acceptance of AI Scoop it page also links this week to recent JISC reports     find out levels of child poverty in the UK in the latest annual  Local child poverty rates, After Housing Costs report compiled by End Child Poverty Coalition, together with the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University. It covers constituencies and London boroughs. Methodology provided on the website   NHS launch Their first equality,  diversity and inclusion (EDI) improvement plan Also just started creating a new uk health and social care scoop it page https://www.scoop.it/topic/uk-social-care-and-health-policy   Human Rights Impact Assessment Framework , launched recen...
Read more

Sites of the week 29th August 2020

Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites of the week  Covid-19  Still updating the blog with quick links to key papers   this week return to school   http:// social sciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/2020/08/return-to-school.html   Covid-ARC - Covid data archive   Created by the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California  aims to provide  a central store of various types of data  relating to the spread and control of covid 19. Also includes   tools for researchers to visualize and analyze various types of data. Categories include: EEG brain function, imaging and behavioural and clincal data and demographic and geolocation.    Hand in Hand geospatial platform (FAO) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently launched the  Hand-in-Hand ge...
Read more

June 1st 2023

  AI resource center new website created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology called the Trustworthy & Responsible Artificial Intelligence Resource Center will contain US federal government guidance on all forms of artificial intelligence, it includes risk management frameworks, case studies, metrics and roadmaps on progress Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA) Portal Launched   Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities, provides access to an Internet web archive of  800 web-based art resources, which have been deemed at risk of disappearing from the Internet. These are organized into 8 collections (art criticism, art fairs and events, art galleries, art history and scholarship, artists websites, arts education, arts organizations, auction houses), The Library of Congress has digitized the Yongle Encyclopedia ( Yongle dadian  永樂大典 ), the largest reference work c...
Read more