employability4socialsciences
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Guardian newspaper launches new business blogs
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2011/oct/03/guardian-new-business-blogs Economics blog – with Larry Elliott • Nils Pratley on finance • Business blog – with Jill Treanor Each contains data, stories and analysis.
World Bank eAtlas of Gender
http://www.app.collinsindicate.com/worldbankatlas-gender/en Electronic interactive atlas which provides free access to facts and figures from the latest World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development. Map and export more than 80 indicators relating to gender and development studies. Topics include women and the economy, politics, health, education and society.
Thesis whisperer
http://thethesiswhisperer.wordpress.com/ Great multi author blog designed to support research students writing their theses. It is edited by Dr Inger Mewburn of RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia but contains materials relevant to students all around the world. Topics covered include writing, relations with supervisors and creativity.
Map Tube
http://www.maptube.org/ A great free resource for viewing and mashing up maps. Basically maps can be overlayed to compare data visually. For some good examples see maps relating to population, crime & poverty. Population ones feature census data. For instance see this mapping of population density in London: http://www.maptube.org/map.aspx?mapid=136
Friendly Numberhood
http://www.numberhood.net/ Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion, a research consultancy from the Social Disadvantage Research Centre at the University of Oxford have created this new app offering local data on the economy, education, health, crime and other topics. The service has been launched as an iPhone app, with Android and Blackberry versions to follow. A free […]
Gewerkschaftspresse
http://library.fes.de/gewerkschaftspresse/content/below/index.xml A project by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung which provides access to a large collection of digitized German trade union periodicals from the beginnings of the German trade union movement until 1933. The most important trade union journals have been digitized and made freely accessible online. Site is subdivided into Freie Gewerkschaften (free trade unions) and Christliche Gewerkschaften […]
Happiness research
This week the Office for National Statistics released the results of a public consultation on indicators which the British public feel should be used to measure happiness National Statistician’s Reflections on the National Debate on Measuring National Well-being: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/article.asp?id=2718 On the same theme: OECD better life index http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/ has created an interactive tool to allow […]
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