Graduates and earnings
Postgraduates earn more than other graduates according to a report from the Sutton Trust, Postgraduate Premium: Revisiting Trends in Social Mobility and Educational Inequalities in Britain and America. http://www.suttontrust.com/news/news/the-postgraduate-premium/ The trust is concerned that to be a graduate is now not enough and shows postgraduates have more opportunities and better wages. Other related sources: High […]
Aid Worker Security database
https://aidworkersecurity.org/ Produced by the Humanitarian Outcomes, a team of specialist consultants, this database provides statistics on violence against aid workers. Reports are from 1997 onwards. Topics covered include kidnapping, injury and murder of aid workers. Categories covered are NGOs, the International Movement of the Red Cross/Red Crescent, donor agencies and the UN agencies belonging to […]
Syria’s internet blackout
Google launches speak to tweet service because of Syria’s internet blackout, a good example of the use of social media to provide crisis communications. Go to the site for examples of messages left.
Flooding
The Global Risk data platform is a multiple agencies (partners include UNEP) effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards this includes floods, cyclones, earthquakes, graphs chart economic and mortality risk. See also UNISDR disaster risk reduction. International Flood network for newsletters and alerts worldwide. Sites on the recent UK floods: […]
Jeanette Winterson, tax, libraries and Starbucks, Google and Amazon!
The author Jeanette Winterson delivered the inaugural Reading Agency lecture at the British Library on 19th November. In it she argued that the government should charge Starbucks tax to save libraries. Read more about it on the Reading Agency website http://readingagency.org.uk/news/media/jeanette-winterson-delivers-the-inaugural-the-reading-agency-lecture.html and in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/19/amazon-starbucks-google-libraries-jeanette-winterson
Sandy: Crisis response
Crisis Response maps from Google: http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy marks disaster areas. Also highlights local emergency twitter feeds. Separate maps for the whole of the USA and NYC are available. They include geographical markers for different types of emergencies. Location tracking, including the current and forecasted paths were provided on the NOAA-National Hurricane Center national weather service. Search the […]
Al Jazeera Archive
http://cc.aljazeera.net/ Free access to video footage released by news service Al Jazeera under various Creative Commons licenses. Featured collections include protests in Gaza, events in Tunisia and the Arab spring protests in Egypt. It includes Arabic materials. See other recommeded free video sites, including historic and public information films on our recent posting for open […]
Social Sciences Directory
http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir/information/readers First issue of new web-based open-access publishing platform, aimed at the global academic research and higher education market: http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir It aims to provide a peer reviewed collection of short articles and research papers, thereby increasing open access to scholarly publication See the publication and submission policies: http://www.socialsciencesdirectory.com/index.php/socscidir/about
Disseminating your research
http://cuba.coventry.ac.uk/emrsg/units/dissemination/ A useful online tutorial for researchers created by the East Midlands Research Support Group (EMRSG). It was designed to be generic and reusable and is offered for use under a creative commons license. Topics covered are: Journals and journal articles; Other forms of publishing; Author bibliometrics; Journal bibliometrics; Networking –(covers conferences and use of […]
Watching Syria’s war: New York Times project
http://projects.nytimes.com/watching-syrias-war is focusing on videos and films from Syria uploaded to the Internet during the conflict. It is examining the sources and claims made about them by activists and the Syrian government in order to assess what is really known about them. Mashable also has a useful article on social media use in the conflict. […]
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