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Our latest round up of social science sites of the week.
See our gender studies news here. http://www.scoop.it/t/women-and-gender-studies
Media studies here. http://www.scoop.it/t/media-reports-this-month
This week more positive news on gay marriage.
UK parliament website has videos and the text of the bill.
See more resources on our blog.
On a more international note
France has also been voting on legal issues relating to gay marriage.
See the Assemblee nationale dossier.
This includes duments préparatoires and e full text of the bill.
Legifrance also has a legislative site with information on procedures and texts.
NHS scandal.
Also this week. The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry reported. The official websitwe has public hearings and the final report on the website. There are also links to an earlier enquiry.
See also the Parliamentary statement
10 Downing Street statement.
Kings Fund response. they also collected other responses and created a storify account. This excellent site collates a number of resources giving background and tracing responses.
Cure the NHS group is made up of patients and relatives of those involved. Their website has discussion events news and responses. Another related campaign group is dignity in care.
Use Social care online to search for free links to abstracts and reports on all aspects of social care. the British Library social welfare portal also has free abstracts. Register for access to some full text reports.
Europhoto.
The EuroPhoto project aims at digitising historical pictures from the archives of 10 leading European News Agencies and make them available to Europeana. Pictures will be free of charge for educational or private use. Partners include Agenzia Ansa, Italy; Agence Belga - Agence telegraphique Belge de presse sa Belgium, Berlingske media a/s Denmark, Dpa Deutsche presse agentur gesellschaft mit beschrankter haftung Germany; Magyar tavirati iroda rt Hungary, Expert system s.p.a. Italy, Polska agencja prasowa sa Poland, Lusa - Agencia de noticias de Portugal sa Portugal; Agencia efe s.a. Spain, Stichting Anp Foundation the Netherlands, European Pressphoto Agency b.v. epa the Netherlands
Already available many historic images relating to the Cold war, Spanish civil war. Images of women participating in political movements and campaigns. Copyright details displayed on the website.
Users from the UK HE might also like to try JISC Media Hub (best accessed via Firefox)
which contains still and moving images
Vads - an online resource for the visual arts supplied for academic use.
Collections include women’s suffrage banners.
Australasia through a lens
National Archives release via website thousands of historic photographs
Drawings of Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and other Pacific Islands. They are available via Flickr so users can comment. They include colonial administration official photographs as well as historic images of indigenous people which would be of value to those studying colonial attitude and race.
Postgraduates earn more than other graduates.
Report from the Sutton Trust
Postgraduate Premium: Revisiting Trends in Social Mobility and Educational Inequalities in Britain and America. They are concerned that to be a graduate is now not enough and lower income individuals are priced out of the postgraduate market.
They show postgraduates have more opportunities and better wages.
Other related sources.
High flyers research – graduate job market and prospects.
The Guardian has some data from 2011 on relative wages.
Unistats web-site provides extensive information for over 31,000 courses in the UK, including student satisfaction ratings, graduate salaries and employment, tuition fees and financial support, and the cost of accommodation. Look at the KIS for data on outcomes.
Twitter transparency
Special official site set up by twitter. Reports on how many requests they have had from governments for removal of information and account details. It is also adding data on where sites are blocked from herdict.
Also on transparency.
Global voices advocacy. Report on the internet firewall in China. Surveys the 2013 battle between. Chinese netizens and China’s Great Firewall
Press Freedom index 2013
Launched by Reporters Without Frontiers. Cross compare with rankings from earlier years from 2002 onwards.
Freedom house also issues press freedom data
Women’s participation in USA.Shabnam Dadparvar, Wang Yonghui. Women at the Political Elite Level in the U.S.: A Multi-Factor Analysis of Limited Participation. J Am Sci 2013;9(1):17-28]. (ISSN: 1545-1003).
Get the full text of this article from the Journal of American science. See the women in Congress historical essay from the US House of Representatives website. CAWP has vote watch and gender gap data about American women participation in politics.
For international coverage see the ITU website where there is a Women in national parliaments database.
Aid Worker Security database.
Humanitarian Outcomes is a team of specialist consultants. It produces the aid worker security database which provides statistics on violence against aid workers. Reports are from 1997 onwards.
Topics covered include kidnapping, injury and murder of aid workers.
Categories covered are NGOs, the International Movement of the Red Cross/Red Crescent, donor agencies and the UN agencies belonging to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Humanitarian Affairs (FAO, OCHA, UNDP, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP and WHO) plus IOM and UNRWA. The aid worker definition does not include UN peacekeeping personnel, human rights workers, election monitors
The last annual report can be downloaded from the site see option on the left of the page. AID Worker Security Report 2012: Host States and Their Impact on Security for Humanitarian Operations
BL Georeferencer
Major project from the British lLbrary to geopreference old maps.Georeferencing tools allow historic maps to be overlaid on modern mapping, enhancing the ability to view and compare the past with the present. The British library is using crowd sourced materials by allowing members of the public to assist. Details of the project and a video and examples are on the project website
Georeferenced maps are being loaded on old maps online.
The Edina AddressingHistory project is also working with online to enhance historic maps.
to create an online tool to combine data from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories with contemporaneous historical maps.
Find out if politicians tell the truth
Washington Post has produced -checking program, Truth Teller, that displays “TRUE” or “FALSE” in real time next to video of politicians and pundits as they speak
See this example of the discussion of policy on the fiscal cliff.
It has a transcript and if you flip to fact check notes several statements as false.
Political missions 2012
Annual report from Center for International Cooperation New York University.
Highlights the activities of political missions deployed by the UN and other regional organizations over the year and provides mission-by-mission data on UN-led special political missions.
Heather Dawson
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