World Bank: http://datatopics.worldbank.org/gender/ United Nations Commission for Europe statistics database: section on men and women in Europe http://www.unece.org/stats/gender/database.htm Social Institutions and Gender Index measure of gender discrimination in 102 non-OECD nations. Covers civil liberties, family and ownership rights: http://genderindex.org/ Gender and Land rights database – free access to information from the FAO: http://www.fao.org/gender/landrights IPU (Interparliamentary […]
Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog
Job knowlegde platform
https://www.jobsknowledge.org/Pages/Home.aspx New beta site launched by World Bank in collaboration with partner organizations. It aims to share ideas on what works in job creation. Key features of the site are the working wiki where crowd members can suggest and rate job creation and resource sites. There are links through to the employment and jobs data […]
Ready to research
http://www.readytoresearch.ac.uk/ Great site created by the Open University, in partnership with the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester, and Manchester Information and Associated Service as part of the Support Centre for Open Resources in Education (SCORE) project. It aims to provide a portal to free OER resources for research students with an emphasis on students new to […]
How happy are you? First Annual ONS Experimental Subjective Well-being Results
Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in the UK http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/wellbeing/measuring-subjective-wellbeing-in-the-uk/first-annual-ons-experimental-subjective-well-being-results/index.html was released this week by the Office of National Statistics. Release includes statistical tables by geographical location. The Guardian has a good graph of locations http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/jul/24/happiness-wellbeing-map-britain For an international comparison Gallup launched a world pessimism index – which concluded that Greeks were most unhappy! http://www.gallup.com/poll/156137/Worldwide-Greeks-Pessimistic-Lives.aspx The New Economics Foundation […]
United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN)
http://unsdn.org/ This new web portal was launched by the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs as a pilot project, aiming to share knowledge and good practices among social development professionals worldwide on ageing, civil society, cooperatives, disability, employment, family, indigenous peoples, poverty, social integration, technology and youth. It […]
British Library releases free sports oral history collection
http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Sport%20 Free access to interviews and recordings of famous British athletes. Those available include Sebastian Coe (on Olympics wins and drugs in sport) , Tanni Grey-Tompson (on disability and sport).
Crowd Behaviour Network
http://www.crowdbehaviournetwork.org/ Recently launched international forum for academic research on crowd behaviour, management and safety. Currently includes news and recent UK government sponsored reports on understanding crowd behaviours. http://crowdbehaviournetwork.org/work/research/
Chicago History Museum online collection
http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/ Useful for social historians of fashion and great fund to look at! With over 50,000 costumes and textile artifacts from the mid-18th century to the present, the Chicago History Museum’s Costume Collection is the second largest in the world and one of the nation’s most complete fashion repositories. Its online website provides free access […]
The 4th work-life balance employee survey
From the Department for Business Innovation & Skills and carried out in early 2011: http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/employment-matters/docs/f/12-p151-fourth-work-life-balance-employee-survey The report benchmarks key policy changes since the 2006 survey including the Work and Families Act 2006 which offered the extension of the ‘right to request’ flexible working to parents of children under the age of 17 (2009). See more publications […]
How far will technology companies go in helping repressive regimes
http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2012/PIP_Future_of_Corporate_Responsibility_070512.pdf Interesting report on corporate responsibility from pew Internet and American Life and Elon University. Based on over 1,000 response from executives to questions relating to the issue ‘how will technology firms around the world operate when they are confronted by situations in which optimal product sales and profits can be made only when they […]
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