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
http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/
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
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
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