Ofcom’s annual Online Nation report and interactive dataset.Contains the latest evidence on online usage and behaviour for Britain and includes a rapid evidence literature review on online misinformation and media literacy
Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog
Career trajectories in UK departments of Politics and International Relations
A report for the British International Studies Association and the Political Studies Association covering UK academic careers in Higher education. The report covers 2012-2019 and reveals that men and white members of staff are over-represented at senior levels compared to their proportion in the academic workforce more generally. 29% of senior academics (senior lecturers, readers, professors) […]
Afrobarometer SDG Scorecard series
Launched recently by the Afrobarometer public opinion polls, the scorecard series allows African citizens in individual nations to score their own country on how well they think it is doing in terms of sustainable development goals. These can then be compared with the official progress reports on the UN website.
The UK’s humanitarian aid cuts
There have been proposed cuts to the UK aid budget. For some background and reactions to the proposed cuts see these useful resources: The 0.7 percent aid target – Commons Library briefing paper Reducing the UK’s aid spending in 2021 – Commons Library briefing paper Statistics on International Development: Provisional UK Aid Spend 2020 OECD […]
Humanitarian Encyclopedia
Created by the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, the Encyclopedia currently includes 129 commonly-used humanitarian concepts. It also aims to provide crowd sourced resources and links to online learning resources for humanitarians.
Useful WTO links
WTO’s General Council ePortal (GCeP)Includes information on all issues raised and discussed by the World Trade Organisation since 1995 with links, where possible, to associated documents and decisions, either issued as separate documents or recorded in the minutes of the General Council. WTO Trade Cost IndexNew from the WTO, The WTO Trade Cost Index […]
Social media in peace mediation: a practical framework
A new paper by UN DPPA Mediation Support Unit and Swiss Peace which explores the role of social media in armed conflict. It includes practical examples of how it can be used for communication on how to prevent, manage and resolve conflict.
SAGE LGBTQIA+ Research Resources
Free access to this set of resources is available direct from the publisher. These include articles books and audio-visual materials. Topics covered include: Queer Theory, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Queer health and Intersectionality.
Conflict Trends Update and Global Peace Index Launch 2021
The latest report published annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). Find out which nation is graded as the most peaceful. Full methodology provided on the website.
University students and mental health
UCAS has published a report, Starting the Conversation, which explores mental ill health in university applications. There has been a 450% increase in declarations in the last decade but despite this UCAS estimates 49% of those effected did not declare it. And there were variations in who declared: female applicants were more likely to declare than […]
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