Digital poverty – UK
UK Digital Poverty Evidence Review 2022 – Digital Poverty Alliance The DPA was established in 2021 by the Learning Foundation, Currys plc. and the Institute of Engineering and Technology. It aims to explore the nature and extent of digital poverty in the UK . This includes coverage of social, political and structural constraint on lack of access […]
Oral history: Women’s Liberation Movement
Recordings of 14 interviews done to mark the 50th anniversary of Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in 2020. For the occasion, the Women’s Resource Centre (WRC) run a project, also funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, called ‘Sisters Doing It For Themselves’ to create a unique oral history archive documenting the testimonies of current and past leaders.
Oral history: Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Oral Histories is part of the ‘These Dangerous Women’ community heritage project. It comprises interviews with 8 women who tell fascinating stories about their time at WILPF.
Map of the Ukraine war.
Institute for the Study of War: Interactive Ukraine Map Now available using ArcGis an interactive map of the current situation on the war in Ukraine. It includes maps, Russian claims and Ukraine defence positions. The Methodology is provided. There are also daily static maps on the website.
Watergate digital records
From the US National Archives and Records Administration To mark the 50th anniversary of the break-in on June 17, 1972 which led eventually led to the resignation of American President Richard Nixon a new website has been created where you can browse evidence from the Watergate trial. They Include images of telephone taps, photographs of accused. […]
Publication diversity in the social sciences
Measuring Publication Diversity Among the Most Productive Scholars: How Research Trajectories Differ in Communication, Psychology, and Political Science” Article published in Scientometrics. Looks at publication patterns in three disciplines: Communication, Political Science, and Psychology, and examine who publishes articles and where. It considers interdisciplinarity in the social sciences.
Yemen Truce Monitor
Yemen Truce Monitor – ACLED (acleddata.com) Updated every Tuesday, this site tracks violations of the truce in Yemen which was agreed in April 2022. The site’s data are collected in partnership with the Yemen Data Project, which is tracking air raids during the truce. Subscribe for their weekly updates.
Caribbean Takeaway Takeover
Caribbean Takeaway Takeover: Identities and Stories Oral histories of ten Caribbean elders from the Windrush generation, who arrived in the UK between the 1940s-1960s, have been recorded and shared on this website which offers insight into their experiences, identity and history.
Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Dashboard
Peacebuilding Funding Dashboard, which was initially proposed in the Secretary-General’s report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace (A/72/707-S/2018/43). The dashboard contains data from over 900 projects, supported by UN peacebuilding initiatives since 2015. It can be filtered by year, region and subject and provides information on levels of investment. There isalso a visualisation of percentages spent […]
LGBT+ public officials
Queer politics databases from Princeton University New Queer Politics website provides data on openly self-declared LGBT+ officials worldwide. Compiled by Andrew Reynolds, it includes all out LGBTQI+ elected officials (at state and national level) since 1976. These comprise lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, gender-non-conforming, queer or intersex persons. Download data on trends over time, […]
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