social science sites of the week december 17th 2021

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

 

in the news covid 

Keep following the updates online via the blog  

http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/

 

Some recent IGO publications on the topic

Losing Time: End this pandemic and secure the future 

An  update six months after the first report of the independent panel headed by leading figures such as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,  it examines vaccine Inequity and calls for the  global response to speed up efforts 

 

COVID-19 and Climate-Smart Health Care: Health Sector Opportunities for a Synergistic Response to the COVID-19 and Climate Crises (World Bank)

 

Locked down and in limbo: The global impact of COVID-19 on migrant worker rights and recruitment (ILO) 

 

Remote Learning During COVID-19: Lessons from Today, Principles for Tomorrow (World Bank)

Responding to violence against women and children during COVID-19: impact on service provision, strategies and actions in the WHO European Region (2021)

Social media & COVID-19: A global study of digital crisis interaction among Gen Z and Millennials (WHO)

 

COVID-19 Public Health and Social Measures (PHSM) Calibration Tool (WHO/EuropFind out  and compare the public health and social measures individual nations are employing. There is also an index of severity of measures employed over time which can be generated . Calibration tools are intended to let policy makers calculate if they ought to make adjustments according to WHO guidance in relation to cases, vaccination rates  

 

WTO-IMF COVID-19 Vaccine Trade TrackerThe World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently launched the WTO-IMF COVID-19 Vaccine Trade Tracker, which provides information on the world trade in vaccines for covid 19. it includes imports, exports donations and vaccine status in individual countries  

 

Diplomatic Pulse: Search Engine for Official Press Releases of UN Member States 

 a new web tool that allows users to quickly search official statements and press releases from all UN Member States. Developed jointly by DPPA’s Innovation Cell and the Qatar Computer Research Institute (QCRI) at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Diplomatic Pulse , it is constructed by scraping  information from at least one source of UN Member States’ internet presences, including official websites of Foreign Ministries and official websites of Permanent Missions to the United Nations. Search results for the last month and browse longer time periods 

 

  

¡Viva la Revolución Mexicana: 1920-2020!" 

online exhibition from UC Berkeley library  

This exhibition focuses on celebrating the centenary of the Mexican Revolution. The year 2021 marks the bicentenary of Mexico's Independence from Spain. Themes covered include:  

Each section has images film clips and contextual histories. 

 

Transforming society blog 

 

published by Bristol University Press and Policy Press. It includes articles, podcasts and interviews covering social science research which aims to have a societal impact. 

Themes include: the changing nature of research, 21st century publishing, and 21st century global challenges 

 

Futures of work 

Another high quality online magazine/ blog  from  Bristol University Press in  association with the Faculty Research Group for Perspectives on Work and the ESRC World of Work PhD and ECR Network. Each issue includes one long essay of 4,000 words, along with a selection of shorter pieces of around 1,000 words plus a a 30-minute podcast. Topics covered are broad and topical including the changing nature of work, hybrid work, automation and geopolitics of work 

 

Embrace the base board game from Greenham Common women everywhere 

A great new game based on a concept developed by Naomi Paxton from the real history of the Greenham Common women peace protests. You can download the files and play enacting the women at the different gates 

 

Another fun Christmas site  

national archives jigsaws 

more than a dozen based on posted and images from Uk national archives  

best wishes

Heather Dawson

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