British Police and Race
British Police and Race The Centre for Crime and Justice has just provided free access to a collection of articles under the heading #BlackLivesMatter which discuss aspects of policing and race in the UK and elsewhere. They consider such concepts as institutional racism and the police and racial profiling. The site also made available videos […]
Do graduates earn more?
Latest analysis from researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Harvard University and the University of Cambridge found that generally they did even during the latest economic recession. One significant finding – the increase was largest for English women around 10 years after graduation who had earnings 3 times higher than non graduates. Get […]
Surveillance and Citizenship Project
Digital Citizenship and Surveillance Society is an ESRC project based at Cardiff University. It aims to “explore the nature, opportunities and challenges of digital citizenship in light of the governmental surveillance measures revealed by whistle-blower Edward Snowden” . Topics covered include: the regulatory framework of digital surveillance in the UK, news media regulation and surveillance, […]
Trafficking in Persons report 2015
The latest annual report from the US government traces trends and ranks nations worldwide. All reports from 2001 can be downloaded from the website. The United Nations UNODC also produces reports on global trafficking Its website also contains a legal database of human trafficking case law The ILO maintains a site with information and facts […]
Thousands of women are criminalised needlessly
According to the latest Report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System large numbers of women are being sent to prison for short term sentences which are wasteful to the system
Violence against women and girls annual report
Just released from the CPS, the report shows a substantial increase in the number of crimes reported and the number of successful prosecutions in the UK. See strategies, policy reports and earlier annual reports on the CPS website. For world wide estimates of the prevalence of violence, see the WHO site which has a 2013 estimate […]
LGBT Hate crime under-reported
88% of UK LGBT people have experience emotional or physical hate crime and only 14% have felt able to report the most recent crimes to the police. Shocking statistics from new University of Leicester Centre for Hate Studies report. Follow more news from them via twitter.
Is the Internet racist?
A trending project called worldwhite.net is seeking to expose and use crowdsourcing power to correct, examples of ‘inherent racism in Google image searches’. This follows earlier controversy regarding Google maps and a 2013 Harvard University study which concluded that if you searched for a name statistically more likely to belong to a black person you […]
Which universities have the best academic reputation?
An interesting new white paper which reviews the results from Thomson Reuters Academic Reputation Surveys 2010-2014. The survey polls over 60,000 academic staff worldwide to get their opinion on university performance. The research paper examines 5 year trends to enable you to see which universities have the fastest growing reputation in specific subject areas. See […]
ORBIS
The European Political Strategy Centre has launched ORBIS – the Open Repository Base on International Strategic Studies. It is an open-access repository for publications on foresight studies. It holds documents on topics as diverse as the future of the economy, education and space exploration. Researchers can create an account and submit foresight documents for publication.
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