Where is the Best Place to Grow old?
Find out by consulting the Global Agewatch Index 2015 from HelpAge International which ranks 96 nations . It is based on international data sets drawn from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the World Bank, World Health Organization, International Labour Organization, UNESCO and the Gallup World Poll. Issues covered include: income, health, environment […]
LGBT History Digital Collaboratory
Exciting project based at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA), the Transgender Archives and the Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony (ALOT). It is seeking to build a network for LGBT oral history digital archives online across North America. It is supported by […]
Global cost of dementia set to reach US $1 trillion by 2018…
…according to the latest annual World Alzheimer report 2015 . It also includes literature reviews on the societal impact of dementia and evidence that its rate is increasing. The UK Alzheimer’s society estimates the cost alone in the UK as £26 billion. See the calculations on their website. For more information try: UK government website […]
Demos Integration Hub
Think-tank Demos has created a special mapping integration area which is examining evidence of racial and ethnic integration/segregation in Britain today. It is spotlighting evidence from major social surveys and academic research and identifying any gaps in knowledge. Key topics currently covered are housing, work and social welfare with education and identity being added soon.
Is the Internet racist?
A trending project called worldwhite.net is seeking to expose and use crowdsourcing power to correct, examples of ‘inherent racism in Google image searches’. This follows earlier controversy regarding Google maps and a 2013 Harvard University study which concluded that if you searched for a name statistically more likely to belong to a black person you […]
European Union Open Data Portal
The EU Open Data Portal provides access to a range of data from EU institutions including Eurostat, the Joint Research Centre and the European Environment Agency. You can retrieve and reuse data from the portal and examples of projects which have reused data are given in the website. The EU plans to launch the Pan-European data […]
Social Media + Society – new OA journal
New open access ejournal which will ‘discuss the use of social media in past, present and future societies’. First issue includes an article by Nick Couldry (LSE) on recent trends in research.
Femicide census
The first UK census of women killed by men (2009-2013) was released by Women’s Aid last week. Compiled by Karen Ingala Smith using public newspaper accounts and Freedom of Information requests. It will provide data and case studies offering insight into the nature and extent of domestic violence and female abuse. For more details see […]
Poverty in the UK
The latest Joseph Rowntree Foundation annual monitoring report – 20% of working age adults without children are in poverty.
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