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, methodology, and findings.
A tour of city of London developed by London Arts and Humanities Partnership research student Hardeep Dhindsa as part of a placement at Bishopsgate Institute which explores traces and the legacy of the British empire and colonialism in the streets and architecture of the centre of London . Download the self guided map to learn more
Counter Trafficking Data Collaborative (CTDC) data hub – the first global data portal on human trafficking. This dataset includes IOM case data from over 17,000 victims and survivors of trafficking identified across 123 countries and territories, and their accounts of over 37,000 perpetrators who facilitated the trafficking process from 2005 to 2022.
It has just added
Global
Victim-Perpetrator Synthetic Dataset this is anonymised data on the links between the characteristics of the traffickers and the trafficked eg by age, gender type of exploitation.
Gafam empire project
developed by DensityDesign Lab and Tactical Tech, which looks at the acquisitions conducted by 5 tech companies. Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, from the moment they
made their first one to the end of the summer of 2022
this enables tracking of their dominance of market sectors, spread and impact
Investigative Journalism Foundation datasets
provides free access to Canada’s public interest databases. These include useful open access data sets on lobbying, political funding influence, lobbying communications. Methodologies are provided.
History Workshop revamped website
is a digital magazine of radical history. It has recently revamped its website. It provides free access to online image of radical digital images. It also provides access to short informative podcasts discussing radical history topics. Some articles are available online free.
Jot – find out where to publish your journal titles?
Developed by the Townsend Lab at the Yale School of Public Health. Focus is on life sciences and biomedicine.
Worth exploring. Match your title and abstract with a range of academic journal titles. There is a demo of how it works
https://jot.publichealth.yale.edu/
Equality, diversity and inclusion showcase - London Higher
This page comprises a report, case studies and information on the work HEIs have done recently on gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability or religion, or types of interventions such as decolonisation projects.
Accompanying the report, is a range of videos from our member institutions showing what they are doing in the EDI space.
best wishes
Heather dawson
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