sites of the week 6th May 2021

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

  

Still adding reports on covid to the blog 

 

 

The King’s Fund has published a new report: Assessing England’s response to Covid-19. 

AD447: Gambians approve of government’s handling of COVID-19 Afrobarometer website. See more examples of African citizens attitudes towards vaccination 

[e]British Library simulator created during covid to recreate the Library experience. Great insight in this short vimeo film from the curator. 

 

Local government elections may 2021 

 Local government association guidance and notes on regulations 

Electoral commission guidance and regulations 

Institute for Government background paper 

House of Commons Library briefing impact of Covid  

Elections centre website has details historic data and charts on local elections from Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher  Associate Members of Nuffield College, Oxford  

BBC 

Guardian 

New Statesman 

Times 

FT 

Britain elects polls aggregator 

 

Academic/ think tank analysis 

Institute for Government news and analysis 

LSE British politics and policy blog 

Conversation academic analysis 

What UK thinks Natcen polls John Curtice analysis 

Electoral reform Society critique of electoral system 

 

Chinese comic book covers 

Curated by Chinese Studies Librarian Zhaohui Xue, this online exhibition from Stanford university   the covers of various comic books held in the collections of the East Asia Library. Most published 1950-1970s. They offer insight into propaganda and cultural attitudes of the period. 

 

Realising Our Potential Backing Talent and Strengthening UK Research Culture and Environment
Russell Group report and toolkit  plus case studies which was released this week. It is based on a 100 interviews with UK  academics at different stages of their careers pus publishers and other researchers. It offers an assessment on the state of the research culture in elite universities and a practical toolkit of steps that can be taken to improve it to create a climate for world class research. 

See more on HE topics on our scoop.it page  

 

 

Sisters Doing It For Themselves - archiving a herstory of 

 activism launch event 

Now available from a recent LSE Library event. An inspiring youtube video of the launch of this project  being organised by the Womens Resource Centre project which is seeking to document the history of the leadership of the Womens voluntary and community sector movement in the 1970s / 1980s. The event has examples of some of the oral history interviews collected by young girls from London schools  and it has a key strength in coverage of BAME womens leadership. 

See more gender links on our scoop.it page  

 

Remote & Rural Remedies
Just launched by the The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh this new website which contains the content of surveys to church ministers and doctors across the Highlands and Islands in the 1850s . These surveys gathered information on the number of medical practitioners in the parishes and the conditions faced by those accessing and providing medical care. They therefore constitute a valuable resource on public health conditions at this time 

 Also available on the site are supporting materials including a  timeline of medicine in the Highlands and Islands and online exhibitions, teachers sections and interviews. 

 

Tipperary studies Digital Archive 

are now adding Famine related Minute Books from Poor Law Unions. The Poor Law Guardians, a sort of forerunner to the local elected representatives, met weekly and the findings, reports and statistics presented at their meetings were recorded in hard bound minute books offering fascinating insight into poverty and the relief of hardship in the region. The website also has poor law union records and materials relating to the Irish famine 

Google Arts and culture Music, makers and machines  

Free access to over 13,000 archive photos and videos, 360-degree guided tours, and 200 museum exhibits from 50 partner institutions worldwide which relates to the history of electronic music. You can even use augmented reality to play a synthesiser from the 1980s! Find out  more about 10 memorable tracks from the last 50 years 


see more inspiring films everyday

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Heather Dawson

https://socialsciencecurrentawareness.wordpress.com/

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