social science sites of the week archive 3rd June 2021

Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites of the week
See some key covid documents on the blog

 

http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/2021/05/uk-government-covid-reports-may-2021.html

  


 

What are the value of volunteers? Some resources for volunteering week 

  

This week is volunteering week
A report by the lse found that NHS covid volunteers programme produced well-being values that were around £1,800 each for volunteers
Happy to help: The welfare effects of a nationwide micro-volunteering programme

Paul Dolan Christian Krekel Ganga Shreedhar Helen Lee Claire Marshall Allison Smith
read the full report for methodology
For further information on the value of giving to volunteers and GDP see this 2015 OECD report
and Volunteers Scotland which estimated
The results of the 2018 Scottish Household Survey allow us to calculate volunteering effort in Scotland as 5.5 billion to Scotland. its website also has resources on how to calculate impact

The NCVO civil society almanac has data on who volunteers - their profiles and what motivates them
The Institute for Volunteering University of East Anglia has an online library of resources on volunteering research
CAF has World giving indexes which cover charity as well as a few questions on helping others 

 

US crisis monitor data on year of George Floyd  

see and export the facts on the impact on political protest  

recently released full data for 2020. it also considers the impact of the presidential election. 

 

 

Women and Power? A Magdalen Story  

An online exhibition curated by Dr Charlotte Berry, William Shire and Prof Siân Pooley Magdalen College, Oxford on the history of female representation. Astonishingly,  women have been admitted only since 1979 but this exhibition considers their role since the founding in the 15th century. It has images, biographies and original documents 

 

Education & Activism: Women at Oxford, 1878-1920 

Wonderful site which is a digital archive project that commemorates the centenary year by bringing together records of the former women’s colleges (Lady Margaret Hall, Somerville, St Anne’s, St Hilda’s and St Hugh’s) into a central website. the Over 7,000 archival images, which include admissions records, annual reports, calendars, photographs, scrapbooks, minutes and letters. A real highlight for me  

The Fritillary the magazine of the University of Oxford’s women’s colleges. published termly from 1894 -1931. It contains news  on events in Oxford (and sometimes Cambridge), including the struggle for womens degrees. There are also articles, dramatic sketches and poetry plus details of debates held by the women’s debating society and reports from the various colleges, societies and clubs. 

 

‘Monitoring multidimensional inequalities in the European Union’ 

A new JRC report and data platform. 

 The report summarises the findings of a pilot research project to develop a Multidimensional Inequality Monitoring Framework for the EU (EU MIMF), undertaken by the Joint Research Centre at the request of the European Parliament. 

It considers inequalities in many dimensions and ranks nations. There is a separate data platform 

the methodology behind the indicators used in the framework is  described on the website. the indicators can be used to consider 

the links between inequality levels and individual perceptions of happiness and life satisfaction and  to analyse intergenerational mobility and the impact of personal circumstances at birth on future life outcomes. 

 

taste of Warwickshire’s past 

Heritage and Culture Warwickshire staff have recreated historical recipes in their own kitchens! See some fun examples in this YouTube playlist of 9 videos using materials from their archives published between 17-20th century. They include hedgehog pudding 

This comes from a book in 1664 and does not contain a hedgehog 

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Medieval Memes Generator 

a wonderful website from the National Library of the Netherlands where you generate your own fun meme from images from medieval books and documents. they even provide explanations of the historic themes 


Heather Dawson

Social science current awareness

https://socialsciencecurrentawareness.wordpress.com/

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