BPS Occupational Digest
A new blog and email produced by the British Psychological Society, Users can get RSS feeds or sign up to receive regular research updates covering psychology in the workplace. This includes organisational psychology and HR related issues such as workplace conflict & decision making: http://bps-occupational-digest.blogspot.co.uk/
Women in the workplace
A few key reports covering the UK have been published this week. The Business, Innovations and Skills Committee has published a 3 volume report on women in the workplace: HC 342. This covers a wide range of issues including pay, equality discrimination. The second and third volumes have oral and written evidence from organisations and researchers: […]
UNESCO Open Access Publications
UNESCO publications on open access Get free access to high quality publications from UNESCO which has a agreed a new open access policy. Starting from July 2013, hundreds of downloadable digital UNESCO publications will be available to users through a new Open Access Repository with a multilingual interface. There are already a large number of […]
Sweatshops
Following the recent tragedy in Bangladesh- would you pay more for ethical production? Depressingly, a Huff/Post YouGov poll of American shoppers found little awareness about the incident or sources of their clothing. This paper from 2005 found that despite their stated support for free trade coffee consumers often purchased other cheaper brands. Find further economics working […]
Islamophobia Studies Journal
Islamophobia Studies Journal is a new a bi-annual peer reviewed academic periodical published by the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, UC Berkeley, which aims to publish articles and book reviews relating to all aspects of Islamophobia and its impact on culture, politics, media, and the lives and experiences of Muslim people.
Global information technology report 2013
Global information technology report Released by World Economic Forum, this report includes Networked Readiness Index Rankings, country data profiles and Case Studies of ICT being used for competitiveness and well-being. Other useful sites for world rankings of ICT are the ITU’s Measuring the Information Society report. This annual report enables benchmarking of development to take place. It […]
Female FTSE report 2013
Acces the latest annual review of the number of women board members at the UK’s leading FTSE companies. From the Cranfield University website. Past issues from 2005 onwards are also available for comparison. http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/ftse
Human Trafficking
A new report from the Centre for Social Justice http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/publications – It Happens Here: Equipping the United Kingdom to fight modern slavery – argues that the authorities do not know the scale of human trafficking in the UK. See reports and a strategy for tackling human trafficking on the Home Office website: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime/human-trafficking/ The UK […]
Sisterhood and After
http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/sisterhood/about.html A website from the British Library developed in association with Sussex University and the Women’s library. It Covers the oral history of the women’s liberation movement from the 1960s onwards. Site is divided into key themes with timelines, biographies, interviews and teachers resources. The latter include classroom notes, glossaries and links to related websites. […]
MyWorld Survey
A major global survey for citizens launched by the United Nations and partners. It asks respondents to prioritise six out of sixteen possible issues in order to gather data about values to inform future global development plans. The survey will be running until 2015. The blog http://blog.myworld2015.org/ will be providing updates on the purpose and […]
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