social science sites of the week 10th January 2022

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

 

Still updating the blog on covid related research

http://socialsciencecurrentwareness.blogspot.com/

 

Women and girls left behind: Glaring gaps in pandemic responses 

This publication contains and analyses the outcomes of  Rapid Gender Assessment surveys (RGAs) on the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 in 45 countries, produced by UN Women in partnership with national statistical offices, governmental entities, international partners, or private sector. The report confirmed uneven pandemic impacts for women on five key areas of concern: 1) participation in the workforce; 2) unpaid care and domestic work; 3) emotional and physical well-being; 4) access to goods and services; and 5) relief and social protection measures.  

 

ACLED has now released all political violence and protest data for 2021 

You can now access an annual update covering more than 266,000 events around the world. It includes extensive coverage of the impact of covid on violent uprising and state repression across the world registered for a free account to get API and full download features 

 

 

CEOs have already earnt more than the annual wage for a full time worker 

astonishingly released this week research by the High Pay Centre research suggests the median FTSE 100 CEO’s earnings for 2022 surpassed the  median annual wage for a full-time worker in the UK by around 09:00am on Friday 7 January. explore the website to see more details on wage inequality in the UK and executive pay. 

 

 

2021 Highlights of Security Council Practices 

The Security Council branch at the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs have issued their online 2021 Highlights of Security Council Practices. Interesting data on number of meetings including numbers switched online meeting attendees by gender and themes and content of meetings 

 

 Portal of Canadian Research Outputs 

Really great new website where you can get information about the latest research reports and publications from Canadian universities covering all subject areas. it is possible to search by paper or project title has been developed as part of a collaboration between Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and OpenAIRE. it searches materials collected from Canadian institutional repositories compliant to OpenAIRE guidelines and from the OpenAIRE Research Graph. It links them to three Canadian funders, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. 

 

Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation and Freedom

Primary Sources from Houghton Library 

Houghton Library, Harvard University’s largest rare books and manuscripts repository, is home to hundreds of thousands of materials relating to African American history in North America. This wonderful website is being developed to provide free access to a range of digitised primary source items – manuscripts, photos, letters and organisational documents. Themes include women’s voices, conventions, slave narratives and emancipation. There are also teaching resources  

BBC 100 

Fab website celebrating the anniversary of the BBC with a 100 objects (technology and props) 100 oral history clips a timeline of events and biographies of 100 icon figures with photos and TV and audio clips 

  

  

Serials in microform 

a real new year gift to explore this great section on the internet archive 

Digitized version from Serials In Microform collection originally from NA Publishing. 

Over 14,000 titles, covering centuries worth of publications, ranging from lancet to harpers and queens. long year runs and easy searching certainly one to bookmark and return to 

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