Social science sites of the week archive 30th July 2021

 here is the latest update of new and interesting sites for social scientists 

 

in the news covid 

There have been reports of increasing self isolation  

Official NHS app statistics
include number of downloads, contacts, tests and symptoms reported including local level data. 

see the official ONS bulletins for trends for information on adherence by age and other ethnic characteristics. 

Yougov polls on deleting app by Uk citizens 

Absences in Workplace 

British retail consortium reaction 

CBI 

Uk hospitality 

British Chambers of Commerce 

NHS Providers 

See more links to publications.

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Global minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and deaths of caregivers: a modelling study 

used mortality and fertility data to model minimum estimates and rates of COVID-19-associated deaths of primary or secondary caregivers for children younger than 18 years in 21 countries.  

   

Visualizing the Virus  

is an international digital project  

 led by Dr Sria Chatterjee. It was made possible by a grant from DARIAH EU and support from the Institute of Experimental Design and Media, FHNW. Princeton Center for Digital Humanities is a project partner. it is interdisciplinary and seeks to curate visualisations which spotlight on inequality. Topics include: how covid policies effect the poor, surveillance and protest. contributions are international 

 

Vaccine hesitancy USA 

COVID Collaborative and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine have launched a new data visualization that shows data on people’s openness to receiving a COVID-19 vaccine by zip code and county for the entire United States shockingly more than 50%COVID Collaborative and to subscribe to receive the Johns Hopkins Center Women at the heart of general practice 

Great new online exhibition from the archives of the Royal College of General Practitioners.  

It has timelines of key events, biographies, images of practitioners and oral history audioclips. Topics covered include: acceptable roles for women, early careers advice and women as patients  


 

Exhibition: The Public Life of Women, A Feminist Memory Project

free access to this useful online project from the  

Nepal Picture Library (NPL) which is based on a larger earlier physical exhibit. it provides. text, images and discussion of how women from Nepal have engaged in politics, political protest in the past. It includes sections on education, publishing and politics 

 

The launch of the new Library of Science website in Poland 
The new website is part of the 'Platform of Polish Scientific Publications' project by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw (ICM UW). It offers open access articles and book chapters from Polish scholars. Covers science and social science publications 


New from British Library endangered archives 

 Records from the archives of Tristan da Cunha [EAP951] 

Tristan da Cunha is a small island located in the southern Atlantic Ocean and known as “the remotest island in the world”.Access historic scientific and natural history documents from 19th century  

“This project  has digitised over 900 gramophone records, disc labels, record catalogues and advertising from ‘The National Gramophone Record Manufacturing Company Ltd. Bombay’, which issued records under the ‘Young India’ label between 1935-1955.  


Best wishes

Heather Dawson

https://socialsciencecurrentawareness.wordpress.com/

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