Social Science sites of the week Archive

    Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites for social scientists     Still updating the website with covid resources   See recent social science reports February January Pancake day - historic recipes This week was Shrove Tuesday so here are some great resources Find out  how to make a Sussex pancake  using this recipe published in 1675! from the LSE Digital Library The  Wellcome Library has a great collection  of historic recipe books.  This example  has how to cook a pancake next to how to source a capon in jelly! BFI Player has on its free section  the rather less exotic Findus crispy pancake adverts from the 1980s! Alternatively try this Pancake song from the Full English Site from Vaughan Williams Memorial Library   The Tippitoe pancake song  was collected in1908  and  is a fabulous bit of folk culture You can view more Shrove Tuesday resources there.     Free speech at un...

In the news this week Still updating the blog with recent reports http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/ Pandemic PGR Have this week released a report on how UKRI policy has failed research students during the pandemic they make a series of recommendations see more reports on our scoop.it website including this week https://www.scoop.it/topic/higher-education-news-for-libraries-and-librarians Estimating the potential impact of policy changes on international student demand for UK higher education London Economics report which calculates the potential impact on EU student enrolments and associated tuition fee income for UK higher education institutions (HEIs) resulting from The removal of tuition fee loan and grant support (where applicable) for EU students; The harmonisation of tuition fees charged to EU and non-EU students ​͏͏Changes to the post-study work rights for EU students ​͏͏Changes to the rights to bring dependants for EU students International Day of Women and ...

  Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites  for social scientists Still adding Covid reports on the blog social science responses  Uk government reports New Covid dashboard A new online dashboard, created by NYU Professor Alexej Jerschow, enables the display of deaths alongside government policies. It has country level and within the USA state level data The site repackages data from a series of publicly available sources. Country-wide information is downloaded from Our World in Data, which sources its data from the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering dashboard. U.S. state and territory data are obtained from covidtracking.com. The Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) provides policy data.   The Social Mobility Commission launches its 2020 review  it includes assessments of the impact on social mobility HEPI  has also considered how disadvantaged pupils have been greatly impact...