4th february 2022

  

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

See more covid related social science research on the blog  


New this week 

UNITE union reveals  Black students experiences with university housing 

Shockingly 54% of Black students surveyed reported having been the victim of some form of racism in their accommodation, 

this is why these initiatives are so important. 

 

 

Decolonising Wikipedia Network 

a project of the University of the Arts which aims to support staff and students in decolonising activism through the editing of Wikipedia entries. it has some good examples and recordings from public events relating to ongoing projects including: 

  

1911 Festival of Empire – a project seeking to make this example of local imperialist propaganda more visible through Wikipedia and re-examining it from a decolonial perspective 

London’s Colonial Her/Histories – a project inviting and supporting people to examine London’s colonial her/histories and legacies,   

 

Learning Technologists’ Anti-Racism Toolkit (ucl.ac.uk) 

Created by the Association of Learning Technologists and  still under development with the objective of making learning technologists reflect on race and diversity when designing online learning materials . it aims to have a checklist which will provide a series of prompts for learning technology designers to consider when undertaking learning design. 

see more links on race and diversity on scoop it page 

 

Women writing birds online exhibition 

a new exhibition from Europeana which showcases to six 19th-century American women ornithologists using images from  Europe's research and national libraries and museums. they include biographies, details of their nature writing and some images 

 

 

UCA artists’ books online via VADS 

The great VADS society which provides free access to over 14,0000 images from uk art and design collections for use in teaching has just added a new collection of artists books.  these are from the  bookRoom collection at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA)and include work from students  

  Really worth exploring this site if you have not visited it for a while as it includes collections of suffrage banners, African and Asian art archives, fashion illustrations and more. 


 

 Listen to the Feminist Library  Podcast
Available via Feminist_Library | Mixcloud
 currently 3 recent episodes on key topics
On Intersectional Feminism by Feminist_Library | Mixcloud
Domestic Violence by Feminist_Library | Mixcloud
Decolonising the Curriculum by Feminist_Library | Mixcloud 

They include discussions with activists
 
Latest from Policy Commons 

The website which contains full text grey literature from NGOs and think tanks  

is developing a feature to locate statistical tables within articles and export them as csv files  

see one of the 150,000 tables an AI tool has found. Registration required on the site many features are currently free. All topics are covered  

  

Islamic History Geodata Initiative 

The Islamic History Geodata Initiative (ihGeo)is a project of the University of Tübingen. It   seeks to create materials  and encourage research on spatial history of the Middle east during the Islamic period. Topics using GIS include: Hajj Routes and Traffic, 12th–16th Centuries.  Mints of the Middle East, 13th–14th Centuries 

Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas 

 Fascinating Project of GSAPP’s Center for Spatial Research and the History Department team university of New York 

It provides a visual mapping of Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s transformations during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Based on 1850, 1880, and 1910 census data, it shows how migration, residential, and occupational patterns changed the city  

LSE  library event 3rd feb 2022. webinar sylvia Pankhurst art and activism watch again on youtube 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUCiuy2y0u4

marvellous images of her art and design and discussion with her biographer Rachel Holmes 

read Sylvias original online archive papers at institute of social history Amsterdam 

https://search.iisg.amsterdam/Record/ARCH01029 

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