Social science publications current awareness

Friday, 25 June 2021

Covid travel lists - June 2021

UK travel update: Malta added to green list and green watchlist extended as plans for quarantine-free travel for fully vaccinated passengers from amber list countries confirmed 24th June

ABTA response

Manchester airports group launch day of action. Statement

Easyjet calls for opening up of travel

TUI statement

Hays travel agents

Wednesday, 16 June 2021

Delay in Road Map June 2021

PM statement 14th Jun

Science media centre reaction

TUC reaction

UK hospitality

Federation of small Businesses. another comment

CBI

BMA doctors comment. and press statement

Institute of directors

Monday, 14 June 2021

Covid social science research June 2021

Lessons Learnt From Lockdown: The highs and lows of the pandemic's impact on disabled children and young people Council for Disabled Children

Unprecedented coalition urged Govt rethink of recovery plans for children- National Children's Burau and 14 other organisations

Fair Education Alliance's letter: FEA-coordinated letter on education recovery

Post-lockdown children in crisis negative impact of social distance on children's health . Childhood Trust

School closures and parents’ mental health ISER

Distanced revolution - home working Demos

Outsourcing as a threat to public health: the case for insourcing public sector cleaners and facilities management New economics foundation

Sunday, 13 June 2021

UK government reports covid june 2020

Oral statement on easing of coronavirus restrictions
Speech by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in House of Commons on the easing of coronavirus restrictions 14th june

Everyone working in care homes to be fully vaccinated under new law to protect residents
UK to donate 100 million coronavirus vaccine doses-11th June

Findings from COVID-19 round 12 REACT-1 study published

Findings from Imperial College London and Ipsos MORI show infections have increased by 50% since the last REACT-1 study in May, with 1 in 670 people infected.

Further measures in additional areas to tackle Delta (B1.617.2) variant

Measures including surge testing, tracing, isolation support and maximising vaccine uptake will be deployed rapidly across Greater Manchester and all Lancashire County Council areas- 8th June

Leading dating apps partner with government to boost vaccine uptake

NHS COVID vaccine first dose drive enters ‘the home straight’ as final cohort called forward 7th june

The MHRA concludes positive safety profile for Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in 12- to 15-year-olds - 4th June

Three quarters of UK adults vaccinated with first dose

Milestone reached as Health and Social Care Secretary gives a speech marking almost 6 months since unprecedented vaccination programme began.

Wednesday, 2 June 2021

What are the value of volunteers? Some resources for volunteering week

This week is volunteering week
A report by the lse found that NHS covid volunteers programme produced well being values that were around £1,800 each for volunteers
Happy to help: The welfare effects of a nationwide micro-volunteering programme

Paul Dolan Christian Krekel Ganga Shreedhar Helen Lee Claire Marshall Allison Smith
read the full report for methodology
For further information on the value of giving to volunteers and GDP see this 2015 OECD report
and Volunteers scotland which estimated
The results of the 2018 Scottish Household Survey allow us to calculate volunteering effort in Scotland as 5.5 billion to Scotland. its website also has resources on how to calculate impact

The NCVO civil society almanac has data on who volunteers - their profiles and what motivates them
The Institute for Volunteering University of East Anglia has an online library of resources on volunteering research
CAF has World giving indexes which cover charity as well as a few questions on helping others

Wednesday, 26 May 2021

International day of Peacekeepers- free academic resources

29th May is international day of peacekeeping. Find out why in this UN page

United Nations Peacekeeping

Is a basic starting point includes info graphics and data

on all current and past peacekeeping missions involving the UN. Includes statistics on costs, deployment, personnel and fatalities.

United Nations Geospatial Information Section

Free access to world and regional maps. Includes thematic maps of UN peacekeeping

Global Peace Operations Review

Maintained by New York University Center for International Cooperation. Provides free access to in-depth analysis and data on military peacekeeping operations and civilian-led political missions by the United Nations, regional organisations worldwide.

SIPRI Databases

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute maintains quality databases which include:

Multilateral Peace Operations Database –contains information on all peace operations conducted since 2000.not currently online but the website has research papers and news.

MILINDA - Military and Non-Military Interventions Dataset 1947-2016

Margarita S. Studemeister Digital Collections in International Conflict Management

Free access to a wealth of full text resources maintained by the United States Institute for Peace (USIP). They include: a peace agreements collection which has the text of all major documents ending civil and inter-state wars since 1989;

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals

Free access to this subject index to English language journal articles and news items from over 60 journals published since 1987.