Sites of the week 21st October

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

 

Still keeping lists of key covid social science  research via the blog 

http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/ 

 

Education recovery and resilience in England: Phase two report Education policy Institute 

 

Based on EPI analysis commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE), the new report models the long-run impact of the pandemic on future earnings, finding that pupils are each likely lose at least £16,000 in earnings, rising to £46,000 in a worst-case scenario if the government fails to intervene. Pupils in parts of the north of England and the Midlands have seen learning losses that are greater than those in other regions, while poorer pupils nationally have also lost more learning – findings that are likely to hinder the government’s “levelling up” agenda. Prior to the pandemic, disadvantaged pupils were already 18 months of learning behind their more affluent peers by the time they took their GCSEs. The pandemic has now exacerbated this education gap, undoing a significant amount of the progress made in closing it over the last two decades. 

 

Dragged down by debt Joseph Rownree foundation- This new research highlights that low-income households, who have borne the financial brunt of the pandemic so far, are also being dragged down by debt as we look to our economic recovery 

 

LSE Institutional Archives 

Now available on a revamped lse digital library site some fascinating institutional records from the London School of Economics. want to find out what subjects were taught in the early years consult the calendars 1895-2006 

the registers have data on degrees awarded and lists of names and there are some fascinating  early directors reports  from the 1940s which details developments and expenditures 

 

 

Transparent: Creating Organisations Inclusive of Black Women in Finance, Professional Services and Big Technology. 

 

New from the LSE Inclusion initiative. This qualitative study undertook interviews with 44 Black women at various stages in their careers. offering insight into why black edi initiatives are needed as the vast majority reported pay gaps and the need for further encouragement and career support as a result this report introduces a transparent framework for promoting inclusive working environments 

 

Black lives in Europe 

The stories and achievements of Black figures from the past to the present 

the latest online exhibition from Europeana which includes materials from Europe's leading national libraries and museums 

It has sections on Haitian revolution, actors, sport and literature. Each section contains brief biographies with accompanying photographs and some images of texts from the archives  

 

So you can speak English?” Windrush and British Colonialism
an  audio tour curated and presented by Ayo Oluyemi based on British Library and British Sound Archive material 

The 25 minute recording contains  

Caribbean-born speakers describing their first impressions of Britain, from BBC Network 3 .Stuart Hall interviewed by Paul Thompson, from Pioneers of Qualitative Research  The website considers how colonialism impacted on the experiences and understanding members of the Windrush generation of 1950s  Caribbean immigrants to the UK it includes transcripts of some of the recordings 

 

 

The #SchomburgSyllabus Back Culture resource 
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research centre of the New York Public library which specialises in Black thought and culture. its website is now providing free access to curated education curriculum collections on themes including  

 

  • Afrofuturism and black comics 
  • Music - (ex: Afro-punk history and Hip-Hop Archive Project files) 
  • Protests  
  • Theatre 
  • diaspora politics 
  • Black Panther party 

many of the sections include short reading lists to printed items available in their collections but there are also links to some web resources and online exhibitions. 

 

UNU-INWEH Flood mapping tool 

United Nations University-led experts have created a new flood mapping tool. 

The FMT currently enables mapping of significant floods from 1984 till the present day using open Earth data.  

 

The version to be released in 2022 will use AI models to generate current and future flood risk maps for three climate change scenarios at the city, district, and river basin levels. 

 

Info nile 


InfoNile is a part of Water Journalists Africa, the largest network of journalists reporting on water issues in the African continent. it aims to use geo data maps to document through story telling information about water resources and the Nile. this includes 11 nations: in northeastern Africa — Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt  

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