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.
Students, debt and standard of living
The Sutton Trust estimated in 2014 that students graduate with £44,000 debt and this week the Centre for Policy Studies reported that generation Y (born 1980-2000) will have a lower economic standard of living than their parents.
Economics of Football
Football has dominated the news this week. The high sums of money involved in the World Cup mean that politics and corruption can become involved. Use these resources to find out more Goldman-Sachs World Cup and Economics report 2014 considered the link between football and stock markets. It found that on average the winner outperforms […]
American race riots
Newsmuseum has created a teaching and learning site which has archived front pages of newspaper coverage of events, plus lesson plans and links to historical resources on early 20th-century American race riots.
Homophobia- the facts
According to ILGA in 2014 there were still 78 nations where same sex sexual acts between adults in private were illegal. This compared to 113 UN nations where they were legal. Use the interactive maps on the website to get the full listing or download the 2014 state-sponsored Homophobia report In many countries acceptance of same-sex […]
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