Here is the latest round up of new and interesting sites for social scientists
In the news this week
If you were expecting Brexit.
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International Happiness Day
International Day of Happiness is celebrated on the 20th March
Research happiness using our free resources
French Language Day
Find out more on the official website
and on the UN website
find out how many people speak French Worldwide in this 2018 report by the Observatoire Francophonie. Lots more great data and infographics on this from the main website
Our favourite French Language resources -all these are free!
Banned Books in France and the United States, 17th-20th Centuries
Find out more on the official website
and on the UN website
find out how many people speak French Worldwide in this 2018 report by the Observatoire Francophonie. Lots more great data and infographics on this from the main website
Our favourite French Language resources -all these are free!
Banned Books in France and the United States, 17th-20th Centuries
Works from the Kinsey Institute and the Lilly Library
fascinating and shocking online exhibition from special collections based at the University of Indiana. Covers a selection of books legally banned for political, religious and ‘moral’ reasons from 17th-20th century. Includes explanations, excerpts of text and related court cases. Links to images and full text is provided wherever possible and there is a bibliography to guide further reading.
Attitudes to Domestic Violence in Low and Middle Income Countries: A multi-level approach to primary prevention
For those thinking this is a thing of the past review the “Frequently Challenged Books” established by the American Library Association which lists books removed from library shelves in the USA.
New Suffrage Papers Online
The papers of suffragist and political strategist Carrie Chapman Catt, including her time as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, have been digitized and are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress.
They include a large collection of letters, diaries, speeches and campaign notes. Associated teaching materials on history of suffrage in the USA are also accessible. The main period covered is 1890-1920.
Where is the World’s Most Expensive City?
According to the latest EIU intelligence report. In 2019 it was shared by Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris. The methodology uses 400 individual prices across 160 categories .Free registration is required to access the full text. Annual reports from 2015 also available from the website for comparison.
Atlas of Urban Expansion
the NYU Urban Expansion Program New York University, in partnership with UN-Habitat and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, is working on the atlas which shows both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of urban growth worldwide.
It focuses on 200 cities in three main time periods. Circa 1990, circa 2000, and circa 2014. Maps include urban density, growth, infrastructure. Phase three includes land ownership, housing and affordability . Users can consult maps and data sets with more being added on a rolling basis.
Attitudes to Domestic Violence in Low and Middle Income Countries: A multi-level approach to primary prevention
This project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Future Research Leaders Awards and led by the University of Bristol The three main aims of this studywere to examine the prevalence and distribution of women’s and men’s acceptance of Intimate Partner violence in 49 low- and middle-income countries to identify systemic country-level social, political and economic empowerment factors alongside individual-/household-level factors associated with the acceptance of domestic violence and; to examine the influence of legislation. It includes microdata from the national Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), and from UNDP, OECD, World Bank, UNESCO databases as well as topic-specific databases such as WomenStats, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) . Findings and papers can be downloaded from the website
Horizons Report - Emerging Technologies and the Mental Health Challenge
Interesting new JISC report .The first section focuses on summarising the major strategic challenges the sector is facing. These include: marketization/ metrics/cybersecurity/AI/ Internet of things/ blockchain The second section consists of a horizon scan of mental health and wellbeing and considers how technology can help and present challenges for mental health and well-being.
Finally
This week we celebrated the First Day of Spring and the UK research councils launched a new project to create a crowd sourced nature diary. Look at the hashtag shown on their site to see contributions . Alternatively Listen to
The dawn chorus from the National Sound Archive at the British Library. Where they provide free access to many wildlife sound recordings online.
Attitudes to Domestic Violence in Low and Middle Income Countries: A multi-level approach to primary prevention
For those thinking this is a thing of the past review the “Frequently Challenged Books” established by the American Library Association which lists books removed from library shelves in the USA.
New Suffrage Papers Online
The papers of suffragist and political strategist Carrie Chapman Catt, including her time as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, have been digitized and are now available online for the first time from the Library of Congress.
They include a large collection of letters, diaries, speeches and campaign notes. Associated teaching materials on history of suffrage in the USA are also accessible. The main period covered is 1890-1920.
Where is the World’s Most Expensive City?
According to the latest EIU intelligence report. In 2019 it was shared by Singapore, Hong Kong and Paris. The methodology uses 400 individual prices across 160 categories .Free registration is required to access the full text. Annual reports from 2015 also available from the website for comparison.
Atlas of Urban Expansion
the NYU Urban Expansion Program New York University, in partnership with UN-Habitat and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, is working on the atlas which shows both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of urban growth worldwide.
It focuses on 200 cities in three main time periods. Circa 1990, circa 2000, and circa 2014. Maps include urban density, growth, infrastructure. Phase three includes land ownership, housing and affordability . Users can consult maps and data sets with more being added on a rolling basis.
Attitudes to Domestic Violence in Low and Middle Income Countries: A multi-level approach to primary prevention
This project was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Future Research Leaders Awards and led by the University of Bristol The three main aims of this studywere to examine the prevalence and distribution of women’s and men’s acceptance of Intimate Partner violence in 49 low- and middle-income countries to identify systemic country-level social, political and economic empowerment factors alongside individual-/household-level factors associated with the acceptance of domestic violence and; to examine the influence of legislation. It includes microdata from the national Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), and from UNDP, OECD, World Bank, UNESCO databases as well as topic-specific databases such as WomenStats, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) . Findings and papers can be downloaded from the website
Horizons Report - Emerging Technologies and the Mental Health Challenge
Interesting new JISC report .The first section focuses on summarising the major strategic challenges the sector is facing. These include: marketization/ metrics/cybersecurity/AI/ Internet of things/ blockchain The second section consists of a horizon scan of mental health and wellbeing and considers how technology can help and present challenges for mental health and well-being.
Finally
This week we celebrated the First Day of Spring and the UK research councils launched a new project to create a crowd sourced nature diary. Look at the hashtag shown on their site to see contributions . Alternatively Listen to
The dawn chorus from the National Sound Archive at the British Library. Where they provide free access to many wildlife sound recordings online.
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