Social Science sites of the week Archive

Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites of the week     The online archive of the Norwich Women's Film Weekend, The Norwich Women's Film Weekend (or NWFW) was a two-day annual event created by Cinewomen that ran for 10 years, from 1979 to 1989, at Cinema City in Norwich. The NWFW lasted longer than any other women's film festival in the UK. In 2021 the NWFW archive was deposited with Norfolk Heritage Centre and in 2022 the collection of posters, leaflets, and programmes was digitised and an online archive created. Browse by year under each entry see the list of films and speakers plus digitised posters, leaflets and more   ACLED is launching a new Conflict Severity Index. This tool will enable researches to compare the extent  and severity of conflicts worldwide. 4 indicators are useddeadliness, danger, diffusion, and fragmentation interactive visualization of the ACLED Conflict Severity Index as well as a full report explaining its indicators, metho...

Happy new year          Here is the latest update of new and interesting sites of the week     if you read one thing this week try this  :    Evaluating the Racially Inclusive Curricula Toolkit in HE’: Empirically Measuring the Efficacy and  Impact of Making Curriculum-content Racially Inclusive on the Educative Experiences of Students of Colour in the UK  Really worth downloading this  key new research from the University of Leicester. Which has been written Paul Ian Campbell, Ashjan Ajour, Andrew Dunn, Heena Karavadra, Keith Nockels, Sarah Whittaker From the summary its importance is    “To our knowledge, this the first large scale mixed  methods evaluation of an intervention for making Higher  Education (HE) curricula racially inclusive in the United  Kingdom. Consequently, the findings discussed offer an  important starting point for widening sector knowledge  as to what works in rela...

Here is  the  latest up date  of  new and interesting  sites  for  social  scientists     How should  the  research be assessed?   Read  the  latest report on responsible metrics  HARNESSING  THE  METRIC TIDE:  indicators, infrastructures and priorities for responsible research assessment in  the  UK Stephen Curry, Elizabeth Gadd and James Wilsdon Report  of   The  Metric Tide Revisited panel 2022. It revisits an earlier 2015 report  considering  the  changing research landscape and  the  use  of  metrics in  the  REF and HE recruitment and promotion.     The  ecology  of  inclusive knowledge collections rests on  the  pillars  of  excellence, transformation and sustainability   RLUK  inclusive collections inclusive libraries series–  Prof. Mamokgethi Phakeng, ...