social science sites of the week 24th june

Here is the latest update of new and updated social science websites

 

UK travel update: Malta added to green list and green watchlist extended as plans for quarantine-free travel for fully vaccinated passengers from amber list countries confirmed 24th June  

ABTA response  

Manchester airports group launch day of action. Statement  

Easyjet calls for opening up of travel  

TUI statement  

Hays travel agents  


See the blog for new covid social science research

http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/2021/06/covid-social-science-research-june-2021.html
UK government reports
http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/2021/06/uk-government-reports-covid-june-2020.html

Health literacy in your area  

Interested in the health literacy level in your borough? See   

NHS England university of Southhampton   

commissioned analysis of HealthLiteracy data for England   

which gives percentage of low literacy and health knowledge in an area. Dates and methodology provided. Could be useful in understanding if local residents may have. Difficulty understanding public health advice   

  

Lives on the line 

Interesting mapping of  life expecentancy in local areas of london mapped onto the tube map. Based on ONS 200-2013 created by Created by Oliver O'Brien, UCL/CDRC.   

 

Senate House library treasures  

Senate House Library, University of London is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its founding collections in June 2021. For the occasion they are creating an online digital gallery of 150 key items which will focus on its core collecting areas of the humanities and social sciences with an emphasis on social justice . they include a photo of  Rukhmabai one of the first female students who graduated as a doctor in the 1890s  

Suffrage images from the early 20th century  

  

Also launched this week  

First phase of RUSI digital library. This is a specialist military history collection.   

It includes catalogues of its ‘lost museum ‘ which had close collections with empire  

  

Early Warning research hub  

Great new resource designed for humanitarian actors  

To alert them to emerging crises using data tools. These include crises trackers, volatility trackers, subnational hotspot trackers for tracing political and religious violence worldwide.  

Europeana LGBT Plus  

Now has a page of great historic LGBT resources from Europe’s national and libraries and museums. Invaluable resource. Includes images from the history of pride, art work, badge ephemera, books and. Archives  from a range of EU nations  

    

Recommended resources for LGBT + history month  
SAGE Provides Free Access to Collection of LGBTQIA+ Research Resources  
Free access to this  great set of resources direct from the publisher
These include articles books and audiovisual materials . Topics covered include: Queer Theory, Gender Identity, Queer Justice, Hegemonic Heterosexuality, Sexual Orientation,  
https://journals.sagepub.com/lgbtqia_research

  

  

British library resources  

National Archives research guide to Uk resources . They also have some podcasts highlighting resources   

Bishopsgate Institute LGBT archives includes News media archives   

LSE LGBT Collections includes the Hall Carpenter archive  

nternational Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) www.ilga.org Worldwide federation of more than 1,200 groups from over 130 nations . excellent maps of sexual orientation maps  

Digital Transgender Archive Superb resource which aims to raise transgender history visibility. Created by an international collaboration headed by the College of the Holy Cross. Browse a directory of archive collections and access a wealth of full text digitised materials, including images and documents, t-shirts  

queer Glamorgan great study guide curated by Norena Shopland. Not just for Welsh researchers 


heather dawson

social science current awareness

https://socialsciencecurrentawareness.wordpress.com/

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