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Trussell Trust has just released the shocking figures that in the last year more than 1 million allocations of food were made by the charity. The report also provides details of reasons for usage and regional breakdowns.
World Development Indicators 2015
The latest annual report and data has just been released by the World Bank. This flagship report covers over 200 nations with over 800 indicators covering all aspects of economic, social and human development. Browse, download data and read the country profiles. Data divided into a number of key areas including economy, people, environment, states […]
Education for all 2015
The latest report for 2015 from UNESCO monitors progress towards achieving worldwide access to 6 goals. These include access to primary education, secondary education, gender parity, adult literacy and quality of education. The website has some handy data visualisations with convenient data as well as access to the full text of the report.
Media in the Age of Cybersurveillance
What is the nature, extent and impact of Internet surveillance on journalism? This question is considered in a new report Watching the watchdogs just released by CIMA (Center for International Media Assistance). It forms part of a wider campaign website which also has blog posts featuring case studies about individual journalists. It was published for […]
100 Voices that made the BBC – Elections
A significant new audio and visual archive of historic election coverage released as part of a research project by the BBC and University of Sussex. It includes film material from every election since 1950, archive documents on the development of election broadcasting and oral history clips with politicians and presenters. For example see this clip […]
Election 2015: TV debates
Democratic reflection App The Election Debate Visualisation (EDV) project a collaboration between The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) at The Open University and the University of Leeds. It was created in 2010 to analyse and study the nature and impact of the first televised leaders debates. Its website has details of the study and a number of […]
Death Sentences in 2014
Amnesty International publishes its latest annual report and statistical data on the death penalty worldwide in 2014.
Election turnouts
History Workshop has posted an interesting 1955 anarchist pamphlet on its website called vote for Joe Soap. It raises the issue for voter non turnout. This parliamentary briefing tracks levels of turnout in the Uk since 1900 for general elections. There are also tables for 18-24 year olds and regions and some international comparisons. For […]
The Tablet Book
Reframe’s digital publishing platform release the free open access Tablet Book. Reframe specialises in media and cultural studies. Its editorial staff are based at the University of Sussex. The book contains papers from a 2013 symposium hosted by the group topics covered include: the take up and usage of tablets readers and iPads across many […]
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