Andrew Dunn
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http://employability4socialsciences.wordpress.com/ This new blog aims to support social science students who are applying for graduate level jobs. It is edited by academic staff at Sheffield Hallam University. Topics covered include career development plans, employability skills and work based learning. Blog posts offer comment and advice. There are future plans to invite special guest writers from […]
BFI new historic film clip site
http://beta.bfi.org.uk/ BBC/ BFI launch the beta site of historic film online archive – The Reel History of Britain. The site includes features films from the BFI and film archives around the UK. This complements the BBC series of the same name of over 120 non-fiction films permanently available online. These are themed in collections such as […]
More years better lives
http://www.jp-demographic.eu/process the EU programme on demographic change is a central point for finding the latest social science research in ageing across Europe. It has lists of national research programmes focusing on demographic change in a wide number of EU countries. Themes include education, health, housing, social welfare and work. The website has links to the projects […]
Parentview
Parentview http://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/ A new citizen focused initiative launched by the UK Ofsted body which is giving parents the right to comment on their child’s school. Users must register and are then able to fill in a 12-part questionnaire giving their ratings of school quality, teaching and attitudes towards bullying. Users to the site will be […]
Third Sector Knowledge Portal
https://cssfs10.bham.ac.uk/heritage/ Created by Third Sector Research Centre in partnership with the British Library, this major new website aims to provide access to a range of materials about the voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors which have been produced by academic research centres, government departments and civil society organisations. It will include full text publications, working […]
Occupy Wall Street protest site
http://occupywallst.org/ This website is a good example of the Internet being used to organise protests. The website includes user generated maps, video streams and organisers materials. There is also a YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/occupytv Other useful background and comment can be found in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/occupy-wall-street Open Culture has films of S Zizeck and Stiglitz participating […]
Global Voices Online
http://globalvoicesonline.org/ has many citizen journalism postings from around the world there is a special section for the Egyptian protests http://globalvoicesonline.org/specialcoverage/egypt-protests-2011/
Aswat
https://www.aswat.com/en/about A website which aims to offer a place for activists and reformers from the Middle East and Africa to post news and exchange viewpoints. It has a resource library of free ‘how to’ guides and training courses for activists. More interesting for researchers are the blogs which contain citizen journalism comment. Bloggers include individuals […]
Peace Women
http://www.peacewomen.org/ A project of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) which seeks to promote peace and disarmament. Its website is a rich source of information about women, war and peacekeeping. Most useful is the resources portal section http://www.peacewomen.org/portal_resources.php which links to a wealth of full text documents online these includes publications and news […]
Using Twitter in university research
Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities – A guide for academics and researchers: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/research/resgroups/LSEPublicPolicy/pdf/Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf Published this week by the LSE Public Policy Group Topics covered include: getting started, writing styles and possible usage by academic departments.
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