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See a collection of significant tweets in this short history from Wired magazine. Read also the Guardian debate on whether you love or hate it. Pew research has 5 fascinating facts on who uses Twitter and its potential. See 10th anniversary postings from users
How can UK universities improve the teaching of quantitative research methods in the Social Sciences?
This is the topic of a major new report just published by the British Academy. It calls for a greater emphasis upon developing skills more extensively and earlier in courses. Case studies of innovative courses from overseas are provided.
22nd March was World Water Day
The official website has details on this year’s theme water and work. It includes a link to the full text of the 2016 UN World Water Development Report. It estimates that estimated that 1.2 billion jobs, or 36% of the world’s total active workforce, are moderately water-dependent. It presents the argument that water, jobs and […]
Gender discrimination in the UK.
Following on from last week’s TUC report which found that ‘Women who become mothers before 33 earn 15% less’, the UK Government this week released the results of a survey on pregnancy and maternity-related discrimination and disadvantage in the workplace based on survey interviews with 3,254 mothers and 3,034 employers. Shockingly 77% said they had […]
Migrant Files
An award winning data journalism website coordinated by Journalism ++ with input from 15 nations. It aims to offer data-driven stories about the migrant crisis in Europe to separate facts from hysteria. It offers facts on deaths, numbers, costs. Here are some other sites which aim to provide factual information and monitoring of the refugee […]
‘Women who become mothers before 33 earn 15% less’…
…than other UK women who do not become mothers according to a report released by the TUC. Statistics are based on IPPR research. They examine the wages of women and men in the 1970 Birth Cohort Study which covers 17,000 people. They compare the weekly earnings of those in full-time work at age 42 who […]
Is London the most expensive world City?
Find out by downloading the latest Worldwide cost of living Index 2016 from the Economist Intelligence Unit. This 6 monthly report gives more than 400 individual prices across 160 products and services including food, transport and housing. Actually Singapore is the most expensive for the 3rd year running. London is in 6th place. Register to […]
Is Britain Fairer?
A major new report launched last week by the Equality and Human Rights Commission examines the nature of disadvantage in Britain in 2016. It maps the nature and extent of equality and human rights today, finding a number of groups such as the disabled continue to suffer discrimination and disadvantage. The site gives access to […]
Research Ethics Library
Now offered in English, this great resource with articles and guidance is from the Norwegian Research Ethics committee. It has an introduction for the social sciences which is suitable for students Articles and guidance on key topics such as the use of human subjects, applying for funding, data protection, academic citation and correcting bias. Some […]
New data visualisation site from the Office for National Statistics
Now in Beta version Visual.ONS http://visual.ons.gov.uk/ which aims to provide new visually interesting and accessible displays of official statistics. For instance see this display on household income inequality which has interactive features inviting users to find out where they fit in. There are very clear visual displays on this article on smoking. All materials link […]
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