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Welcome to the latest update of social science sites from Information specialists
June 26th
Extreme Heat Portal (UNDRR)
https://www.preventionweb.net/hubs/extreme-heat
The Extreme Heat Portal created by the UN to bring together international UN resources, guidelines, toolkits, and reports on extreme weather events in one place. It also includes links to national government action plans and policies
also available from the UN UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Extreme Heat / Heatwaves – Selected Online Resources: https://unric.org/en/unric-library-backgrounder-extreme-heat/
https://www.preventionweb.net/hubs/extreme-heat
The Extreme Heat Portal created by the UN to bring together international UN resources, guidelines, toolkits, and reports on extreme weather events in one place. It also includes links to national government action plans and policies
also available from the UN UNRIC Library Backgrounder: Extreme Heat / Heatwaves – Selected Online Resources: https://unric.org/en/unric-library-backgrounder-extreme-heat/
The International Development Economics Association
https://idea.devecon.org/
is the first global professional association dedicated to development economics. It was founded in 2026 and aims to support development economists at all stages of their careers. Activities will include scholarly exchange, career development and online communities. The website provides information about membership and the organisation’s growing range of activities
is the first global professional association dedicated to development economics. It was founded in 2026 and aims to support development economists at all stages of their careers. Activities will include scholarly exchange, career development and online communities. The website provides information about membership and the organisation’s growing range of activities
Video webinar of the launch event
Amazing collaborative project between University of York staff and partners including Mencap and local schools which aims to amplify the voices of people with learning disabilities in research by providing a library of guidance on good practice. Initial resources focus on children and young people, and the resources created are grounded in extensive multi layered ethnographic research methods and advice from specialists including language and speech therapists. They include tools for data collection which can be downloaded and adapted for use.
Marked: School Grades and the Quantified Life by Noëlle Rohde
The latest open Access title from the LSE Press. Physical copies are available to purchase via online book retailers.
Noëlle Rohde’s ethnography of German comprehensive school where pupils are graded over 100 times per year. She examines the impact on the children and their self-images
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-research/british-academy-shape-observatory/higher-education-and-research/who-studies-shape/
The British Academy’s new SHAPE Observatory dashboard
The British Academy’s new SHAPE Observatory dashboard
draws on student data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) from 2015/16 onwards , to providea visualisation of who studies social sciences, humanities and the arts (SHAPE) in HE across the UK. It enables examinations of trends in race, gender and subject coverage. It is also possible to track student mobility trends. Full methodology provided.
A searchable database of protocols of open access systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis reviews (including scoping reviews and rapid reviews) managed by CABI. Topics covered include agriculture, food security and nutrition, climate adaptation, public health and animal and veterinary sciences. Submission is free and reviewed before publication. Records can be used to trace ongoing research. Some link through to search strategies.
Protection and Assistance Services Along Mixed and Onward Movement Routes Dashboard
https://data.unhcr.org/en/working-group/496?#mapping-services
Just launched by ICVA, a global NGO network, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the International Organization for Migration. It aims to map services and gaps in provision to refugees and migrants along key routes, starting with the Western Africa Atlantic Route. Services include child protection, protection against gender-based violence, victims of trafficking, mental health support and legal advice
Priscilla Wakefield- Tottenham activist
Amazing to discover this site about the life and work of an early woman Quaker social reformer, feminist economist and activist. Her life spanned 1751-1832 It includes details of her achievements some links to full text materials and articles describing about her examples include:
Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor Vol.III 1802 No. LXXXIV.
Crossing Paths
The latest report from the Sutton Trust includes a geography of opportunity and social mobility in England, revealing great disparities between different areas. It includes a White Working Class Opportunity Index – an interactive dashboard mapping life chances for people in different constituencies across England. It enables intersection of gender, ethnicity and class to be examined. Detailed recommendations for future action are made. Methodology is provided.
Proletkult was created by Ian Goodale, European Studies and Linguistics Librarian and Digital Scholarship Specialist at the University of Texas at Austin. it provides access to a series of OCR journals relating to the cultural movement in the Soviet Union founded in 1917 to encourage expression by the working class. The aim i to provide a potential data visualisation source for research
also in progress from the same source
Europa Visualizer
is a web-based tool A tool to interact with the data.europa.eu API. Search datasets, find those with CSVs available, and view and graph that CSV data in your browser. Data is drawn from the
Europa Data Portal. It allows you to search the portal, see all of the datasets containing CSV files, preview those files’ contents, and graph the data directly in your browser. A direct link to the selected CSV and its Europa URL is also provided for easy downloading.
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Hello,
I am I PhD student and a librarian. My interest is in accessibility services for people with disabilities in libraries.
I will be very happy to be able to read this article –
McNaught, Alistair. (2014). Accessible libraries – Pragmatic strategies. ALISS quarterly. Vol. 9 (4)
Thank you,
Einat Ben Dov.
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