Girls ‘banned from using mobile phones’ in many nations Shocking findings from a global survey released on the International Day of the Girl. The survey by Girl Effect and the Vodafone Foundation surveyed the experiences of more than 3,000 adolescent girls and boys from 25 countries examining access and usage of mobile phones. In some […]
Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog
Mental health: International
Useful mental health resources include: World Health Organization Mental Health Atlas; the latest (2017) edition provides data on 177 WHO members covering mental health policy, planning and services. It contains economic expenditure on mental health, measure of public mental health promotion campaigns and take-up rates in individual nations. Time to Change has resources to combat stigma […]
Mental Health UK
10th October was World Mental Health Day and the first Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit has been held. Its website has reports and decisions. Why is it necessary to focus on mental health? The Education Policy Unit’s Access to childrens mental health services report for 2018 found that the number of referrals to mental health […]
Congressional Reports Service website launched
Recently launched, an official website which provides free access to non-confidential briefing papers and reports supplied to members of the US Congress. They are working to add back files. See the FAQS for details of inclusions and material that will be added. These are excellent for gaining an understanding of the US legislative process, they […]
Mapping Segregation: Google Maps and the Human Rights of Palestinians
Interesting report by 7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement which argues that the boundaries and names used on Google Maps favour the cause of the Israeli government in the Palestinian area while neglecting to include road blocks and other barriers erected by Israel in the region. Download the full report and other materials […]
#METoo one year on: what has changed?
This week the Fawcett Society has issued a report on changing attitudes in the wake of the #MeToo movement This has shown increasing awareness. Findings include that in the 18-34 age group over 50% say that they are now more likely to speak up against sexual harassment, including 58% of young men However on the […]
Is homework pointless?
With the return of the university academic year some TV programmes have discussed whether homework matters. The UK originally had guidelines on the numbers of hours but in 2012 these were scrapped. DERA digital library from the UCL Institute of Education. has some digitised documents from UK government education bodies about hours of study. OECD […]
Eurostat regional yearbook 2018 released
Get free access to sub-national level data on Europe’s regions. The 216 page publication includes chapters on regional policies and European Commission priorities, as well as statistics on population, health, education and training, labour market, economy, structural business statistics, research and innovation, digital economy and society, tourism, transport and agriculture. It also includes two special […]
Will people in the UK live shorter lives?
This week the newspapers reported that life expectancy is falling or stalled in the UK for the first time since records began, but what are the facts on this? Here are some useful starting points: the statistics are taken from the National Life Tables 2015-2017. The website has details on the methodology. However life expectancy […]
Free cash point machines are disappearing
Free ATMs are disappearing. Link provides monthly financial inclusion reports which map numbers and geographical locations of cash machines. The Payments Systems regulator sets out standards for monitoring inclusion. Between January and the start of July 2018, Link recorded that the the number of free-to-use ATMs reduced from 54,500 to 53,200. There is a breakdown […]
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