Social science sites of the week -11 December 2020

 

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

 

In the news this week

Still updating the blog on covid

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Universities

a recent NUS study found mental health declining during this term

Coronavirus Student Survey phase III November 2020 Mental health and wellbeing Commissioned by NUS, NUS Charity, TOTUM and the Co-op Delivered by NUS Insight More than half (57 per cent) reported a worsening in their mental health and well-being between the beginning of the autumn term (September 2020) and being surveyed.

 

also released this week

Coronavirus and higher education students: England, 20 November to 25 November 2020 Experimental statistics from a pilot of the Student Covid Insights Survey in England. Includes information on the behaviours, plans, opinions and well-being of higher education students in the context of guidance on the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.


Encouraging Protective Covid-19 Behaviors Among College Students explores how universities  can encourage students to adopt behaviors that help prevent spread of the virus, such as mask wearing and physical distancing. Findings from developmental psychology and brain research about adolescent and young adult behavior can guide campus leaders: many adolescent are used. materias published by the 

This rapid expert consultation was produced through the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN), an activity of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine USA

 

COVID-19 Testing Strategies for Colleges and Universities 

access the free text from the National Academies Press

more from our scoop.it page here 

https://www.scoop.it/topic/higher-education-news-for-libraries-and-librarians

 

Pandemic Oral History Project

from the archives of American Art Smithsonian the  project comprises eighty-five short-form interviews with a diverse group of artists, teachers, curators, and administrators. they are being released gradually on a special youtube channel and offer insight into daily experiences of these artists of different ages and ethnic backgrounds

 

Google arts and Culture : Workhouses

materials from the workhouse network which comprises uk universities, museums and cultural institutions. It includes photographs and some exhibits which recreate the lives of inmates of Uk workhouses giving insight into the experience of poverty and the organisation of social welfare.

 

Where is the internet inaffordable?

 

Get the data from the latest annual report of the Affordable Internet Alliance

it covers national government broadband policy, planning and the prices people have to pay in nations worldwide. It also considers the impact of the digital divide especially during lockdowns

 

on this theme a new report on the digital divide from the ITU

Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures 2020,

Topics covered include: household access, acces by age, gender and urban and rural divides. There is also coverage of national infrastructure


Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe, GEM

a research project led by the University of Gothenberg which has culminated in an open access book

Comparing Gender and Media Across the Globe: A cross-national study of the qualities, causes and consequences of gender equality in and through the news media

it covers the  nature, causes and consequences of gender inequality

it also provides free access to several major datasets:

(Global Media Monitoring Project, GMMP, The Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media, IWMF, and Women in Media in Europe, The European Institute for Gender Equality, EIGE) as well as a selection of other key context variables – measures of gender equality in society, women’s political representation, and economic development. The data set also includes the GEM-index, which is a composite index measuring the level of gender equality in news media content in different countries

 

South Asian Gender and Sexuality Web Archive
A New web Archive from the
Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation available from the archive.it website

it currently includes 74 web archived resources covering lgbt plus activism in South Asia and its diaspora. these are valuable for grass roots discussion of gay and transgender rights , pride and cultural events and responses to government policy which may not be reported elsewhere


[Re:]EntanglementsRe-engaging with Colonial Archives in Postcolonial Times

valuable project covering Nigeria,  Sierra Leone  

 being led by  Paul Basu at SOAS University of London funded by the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council, I tis seeking to re-engage with the  ethnographic archive –assembled by the colonial anthropologist, Northcote W. Thomas, in Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone between 1909 and 1915. As well as better understanding the historical context in which these materials were gathered, the project seeks to examine what the photos and  papers mean for contemporary descendants of those studied and anthropologists today 

VoxDevLits


New quick  literature reviews from VOXDEv that aim to summarise the evidence base on narrowly defined topics related to development economics. Each is provided by a group of scholars and specialists. They are intended to be updated providing summaries of existing literature and studies on topics relating to development issues. The first one released is on training entrepreneurs 

 

Finally from the archive of Sainsburys a marvellous christmas related collection

there is a history of christmas shop displays - including price lists

plus from the catalogue mock ups and product packaging designs 

 

Heather Dawson

socialsciencec2

https://socialsciencecurrentawareness.wordpress.com/

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