Anti-racism sites
Measuring anti-Muslim Attacks Project, (MAMA Project): http://tellmamauk.org/ Faith Matters, a not for profit organisation founded in 2005 which works to reduce extremism and interfaith and intra-faith tensions: http://faith-matters.org/ Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading race equality think-tank: http://www.runnymedetrust.org/ Institute of Race Relations. The IRR is at the cutting edge of the research and analysis that inform […]
EUScreen
Free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today. http://www.euscreen.eu/
LSE briefing papers
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/geographyAndEnvironment/research/london/events/HEIF/HEIF4b_10-11%20-newlondonenv/briefs/home.aspx A series of 5 briefing papers written by academic staff of the London School of Economics which was funded by the HEIF4- to provide guidance to practitioners and policy makers on recent economic and political trends in London. They comprise: The economic recession: why London escaped lightly, Ian Gordon; Poverty and Inequality in London: […]
British Social Attitudes survey released
http://www.natcen.ac.uk/study/british-social-attitudes-28th-report Major social attitudes study released on the net by National Centre for Social Research. Conducted annually since 1983. This year’s report covers the following themes: Political engagement, Devolution, Private education, School choice, Higher education, Environment, Transport, Housing, NHS, Childhood, Child poverty, Religion full text online . http://ir2.flife.de/data/natcen-social-research/igb_html/index.php?bericht_id=1000001&index=&lang=ENG Earlier results (summaries) from 2009 can also […]
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2011
http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/monitoring-poverty-2011 This annual report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute uses 50 indicators to consider levels of poverty in the UK. This year it also considers the impact of coalition policies. Topics covered include: child poverty, poverty in old age, the unemployed and poverty, housing, fuel poverty and household debt. […]
The Riots Communities and Victims Panel: Interim report
Following the riots that occurred in towns and cities across England between 6 and 10 August 2011, the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition established the Riots Communities and Victims Panel. You can read the interim report of the panel at http://www.5daysinaugust.co.uk/ Other useful sites on this topic include: London Recovers […]
Occupy Archive
Another site archiving protest materials. This one http://occupyarchive.org/ , a special project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, is saving digital evidence and stories from the Occupy protests worldwide that began in September 2011 in Lower Manhattan. This includes archives of websites, personal accounts, photographs and texts. It is possible […]
Occupy Wall Street
http://www.archive.org/details/occupywallstreet The social movement now has a space on the Internet where they are permanently archiving protest materials. There are currently over 175 materials preserved. They include pictures of protests across the USA from activists, audio files of speeches and images of leaflets produced. For instance see the insert designed to deter companies that send […]
The riots of summer 2011: Seminar organized by the Campaign for Social Science
http://www.socialsciencespace.com/2011/10/the-riots-of-summer-2011-seminar-organised-by-the-campaign-for-social-science/ Access the presentations from an event which took place at Gresham College, London on 13th October 2011. Podcast available soon. The presentations cover 3 main themes: How did we come to this? Is Britain “broken”? Were the rioters “just criminals”? It also has some useful suggestions for further reading. Including links to articles and reports […]
Google Transparency Report
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/governmentrequests/ The official Google website which provides 6-monthly reports on requests from governments to remove content. Country files have graphs of trends plus comment on the content and information on court cases. Materials generally from 2009 onwards. See the notes on limitations to understand how the index is calculated. http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/faq/#governmentrequestsfaq
Recent Comments