Happy new year
Welcome to 2016 with the latest update of new and
interesting sites for social scientists
New Year’s resolutions.
Try the RSA
social brain quiz to find out what new year’s resolution you should choose
and how you can stick to it.
It is based on the findings of a recent Royal Society report
Easier
Said than done – why we struggle with healthy behaviours and what can be
done about it. This 33 page report has some practical tips on positive
lifestyle changes to encourage healthy walking, eating, sleeping and talking
which are based on psychological research
See some links to insights from psychology research on
our recent blog posting.
Central African Republic elections.
Elections finally took place on the 31st
December. Find out more about the human rights background plus get news reports
and press releases from the 2015 election observation teams
on our elections blog.
Fat Cat Tuesday
On the 5th January 2016 top bosses salaries
FTSE CEOS will already have exceeded the average annual pay of many workers
(£27,645) according to the High Pay Centre
Price
Waterhouse Cooper conducts regular surveys on the state of executive pay in
the UK
According to
a recent survey from CIPD 71% of employees think CEO pay is too high in the
UK.
In an associated report on the behavioural impact of high
wages on CEO behaviour and motivation CIPD recommended that pay rises became
evidence based.
NCVO
conducted an inquiry into executive pay in the charity sector. The final
report from 2014 can be downloaded from their website
Norton Rose Fulbright maintain a UK
Corporate Governance portal which as a really useful collection of links to
recent reports from the UK government, trade associations and other bodies on
executive pay. These cover regulation, performance related pay and ethics
related issues.
First Anniversary of Charlie Hebdo attacks
Twitter coverage
of the anniversary
The University
of Oxford has translated and made free on the Internet a book on tolerance.
With extracts from key French philosophers and writers. The original text was
La Société Française d'Etude du Dix-Huitième Siècle (ed.), Tolerance:
le combat des Lumières (Paris: SFEDS, 2015). Contents include:
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen,
1789
Voltaire, ‘Prayer to God’, from Treatise on Tolerance, 1763
Three aphorisms from Denis Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts, 1746; Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748; and Voltaire, Portable Philosophical Dictionary, 1764
Nicolas de Condorcet, 'On Admitting Women to the Rights of Citizenship', 1790
John Locke, Letter on Toleration, 1686
Voltaire, ‘Prayer to God’, from Treatise on Tolerance, 1763
Three aphorisms from Denis Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts, 1746; Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748; and Voltaire, Portable Philosophical Dictionary, 1764
Nicolas de Condorcet, 'On Admitting Women to the Rights of Citizenship', 1790
John Locke, Letter on Toleration, 1686
Harvard
University is in the middle of creating a physical and virtual archive of
materials relating to the 2015 attack. See an explanation
of the archive on its own pages. This page has some
preliminary data visualizations of georeferenced tweets using the Je suis
charlie hashtag
New
York Times Learning Network lesson plans to encourage students to consider
concepts relating to journalism and blasphemy
Newsmuseum – has archived
front pages of over 900 newspapers which enables some brief comparison of
coverage and headlines across the world. January
8th 2015 coverage and
The Internet Archive has preserved over 3,000 pages from a
variety of institutions and social media preserving contemporary responses to
the attacks
What makes cities competitive?
Find out by downloading a recent working
paper from the World Bank
Kilroy, Austin Francis Louis; Mukim, Megha; Negri, Stefano.
2015. Competitive cities for jobs and growth : what, who, and how. Competitive
cities for jobs and growth. Its objective is to create a knowledge base on
what makes cities competitive, to improve the understanding of job
creation at the city level, and to establish a foundation for
a community of practice on this topic
The
A.T. Kearney Global Cities Index (GCI) ranks 125 cities according to
27criteria across five main themes business activity, human
capital, information exchange, cultural experience, and political engagement.
JLL’s
Global300 cities has a ranking of cities worldwide attracting the most
commercial real estate activity.
Cities
of Opportunity Price Waterhouse Cooper ranks 30 leading cities in terms of
social and economic factors such as cost, transport infrastructure, safety,
ease of doing business
‘Many Postgraduates are overwhelmed by their workloads’
According to the results of the latest Postgraduate
Taught Experience survey published by the Higher Education Academy 72,000
students from over a 100 institutions took part giving their opinion on
workloads, motivation, and quality of teaching and learning.
Some potentially interesting points arising for service
providers problems relating to workload – can libraries help students organise
their time / research more effectively/ develop time management skills?
Employability – large numbers of students mention that a key
motivation in enrolling was to improve career prospects. Can libraries
highlight / teach skills that will help students in the workplace or find jobs?
Find more free reports on HE education, teaching and
learning on our
scoop,it page
Agents of Future Promise: children’s burden or benefit?
During 2015 researchers at the University of Leeds, Cardiff
and Huddersfield. Examined ideology in the portrayal of children in British and
French history from the 19th century to the post war era. The project website now has videoed discussion from the
end of project workshop help in September 2015. Topics covered include toys
and gender, toys and the British empire, the Vichy regime and children, the use
of children to envisage the future in wartime Britain.
Top 100 Global Innovators.
Thomson Reuters has just released its annual
ranking of the most innovative global organisations . It analyses
patent and citation data across four main criteria: volume, success,
globalization and
influence using Thomson Reuters solutions including Derwent
World Patents
Index (DWPI), Thomson Innovation and Derwent Patent
Citations Index (PCI). The site includes breakdowns by region and industry as
well as details on the methodology used.
Coming soon: 2016 US elections.
RealClearPolitics: Election 2016
RealClearPolitics: Election 2016
This site from RealClearPolitics offers readers daily
updates on polls, interviews, speeches, and other news related to the 2016
election. It currently includes polls relating to the Republican and Democratic
nominations.
Stunning images of Earth
As Tim Peake and space continue to dominate the news. View some amazing images of earth
from the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. The site also has some free
downloads of lunaserv mapping
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