Social science sites of the week- 11th February

In the news this week


Still updating the blog with recent reports

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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 Girls in Science, 11 February- why is it important?

Here is some key data about why this is necessary

Stem Women quotes the following on its website
Core STEM subjects – Female students

2017/18
Number of female students - 112,720 – 35%
Since 2015, the number of women in STEM (women graduating in core STEM subjects) has grown from 22,020 to 24,705 in 2019. On the surface this would appear to show a linear increase, however, due to the more rapid growth in the number of men graduating in these subject areas, the percentage of women in STEM has fluctuated from 25%, down to 24%, and finally up to 26% where it has stalled in 2019.
The wise campaign also tracks progress

For support and an amazing archive on the history of Engineering see the Women in Engineering website which has the Woman Engineer journal from 1919-2004

Stemettes provides role models and offers events to encourage young women into STEM


For Data on the EU see Eurostat on number of graduates

For a broader picture the OECD

there are stats for graduates in different subject areas where gender can be compared. usually just binary

Also papers discussing low levels of take up by girls of scientific subjects

Worldwide According to the UNESCO Cracking the code: Girls’ and women’s education in STEM, in 2017 only 35% of STEM students in higher education globally were female

Details of ongoing programmes can be found in the SAGA website

Productive Capacities Index (PCI) (UNCTAD)
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has launched a new tool to help developing countries improve their development policies. It maps covers 193 economies for the period 2000-2018. are mapped across 46 indicators. in 8 categories human capital, natural capital, energy, transport, ICT, institutions, structural change and private sec
it includes data visualization and reports


Stories of Feminist Peace 2020!
WILPF annual report includes stories of activism during COVID lockdowns . It also considers what
25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and 20th anniversary of the adoption of UNSCR 1325 on Women, have achieved

Women Rediscovered: Stories from North East Wales Archives
North East Wales Archives, and Theatr Clwy have created and released on Youtube a series of short monologue films which tell stories of inspiring local women from the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and twentieth centuries using sources from archive collections held at Ruthin and Hawarden. Characters include: a headmistress who devoted herself to education; - A widow of miner killed in the Gresford colliery disaster; - A mother reflecting on postnatal depression; - The famous Marged ferch Ifan, “an extraordinary female who was the greatest hunter, shooter, and fisher, of her time” as written about by Thomas Pennant.


Switching the Lens – Rediscovering Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous Heritage,
London Metropolitan Archives has launched a new database –

which provides information about history BAME londoners. 1561-1840. The sources used are Anglican parish registers. This limits it to those baptised, married or buried in a parish church in the London area.it is absolutely great to see the original digital images which give names, ages, place of residence and occupation. There are also some case studies of individual on the site giving fuller biographies



Making Modern Women: Women’s Magazines in Interwar Britain

A great online exhibition from LSE Library with contributions from
AHRC-funded Time and Tide: Connections and Legacies project, directed by Dr Catherine Clay at Nottingham Trent University with the assistance of Dr Eleanor Reed. Comprises five sections Reading Women, Fashioning Women, Home and Work, Campaigning Women, International Women – with essays and great original clips from women’s magazines of the 1920s and 1930s including Time and Tide. Recordings of associated events are also being made available

See this youtube presentation on Eva Gore Booth and Urania magazine

The Marvin & Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Digital Collection
New from Florida Atlantic University (FAU)
Free access to over 13,000 books, pamphlets, government publications, newspapers and serials. The collection is wide ranging and including many rare and obscure works from as early as the 16th century. subsections include almanacs, collected speeches and foreign language pamphlets. well worth exploring some of the books have great illustrations



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