Intute: Social sciences presents the 15 most recent Web resources for education and research added to our database en-uk 20 Nov 2009 03:30:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/latest.html Logo for the Intute service http://www.intute.ac.uk/images/intute_100_new.png 100 42 http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/latest.html http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091119-10255364 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091119-10255364 The Gypsy poet is a personal website developed by Ray Wills, who has a lifetime's experience in play provision in the UK. It includes sections on the history of play and recreational provision for children, and the value of play for children's well being, as well as links to articles, videos and related websites. It also includes information about the author's childhood and life, information about Dorset and its history, and a section on travellers and gypsies, with related links. There are images throughout the site plus poems by the author and other poets. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091119-08394470 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091119-08394470 "Good practice in care delivers the outcomes that people who use care services, carers & stakeholders require through tried & tested methods." SCIE's Good Practice Framework website enables practitioners to upload examples of good practice in care which has been proven. This can then be shared with staff, carers and the public through the website. The searches available are subject searching by social care online keyword or browsing the social care online topic tree. Browsing is also available by Dignity in Care keywords and by organisation type or name. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091119-10032969 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091119-10032969 High quality care for all : our journey so far, was published in June 2009 by the Department of Health. Lord Darzi examines the progress the NHS has made in the year since his previous report, High Quality Care for All : NHS Next Stage Review final report, was published. Progress has been made on all aspects of quality - patient experience, patient safety and clinical effectiveness, with patients already seeing the difference. Proposals for the future include - the refining of targets based on evidence (with the scrapping of the 13 week outpatient and 26 week inpatient performance targets); clinicians ownership of their own budget ; and a peer review accreditation system. The report is in PDF format and requires Adobe acrobat Reader. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-15174239 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-15174239 A site launched by the French government, Ministère de l’Immigration, de l’intégration, de l’identité nationale et du développement solidaire in November 2009 to engage the French people and French decision makers in discussion about French national identity and what it means to be French in 21st Century multi-cultural France. It includes access to French government documents on citizenship, immigration. Also available are video films of interviews with philosophers, academics and officials, plusdiscussion forums for members of the public. Topics covered include , attitudes towards Muslim and other ethnic and religious communities in France. Information is offered in French only. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-15065363 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-15065363 This site provides free access to a recording of a Royal Holloway History Department Research Seminar Series held on November, 2009. Contributors include John Kirk (Royal Holloway); Joe Merton (Oxford University) Sandra Scalon (London School of Economics); Tim Stanley (Royal Holloway). It is available via the Backdoor Broadcasting Company as a series of podcasts. It can be downloaded as a podcast. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-14415611 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-14415611 Psycho-Political Resistance in Israel-Palestine was a conference held at Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Birkbeck College, London from 15 to 16 October 2009. It is available via the Backdoor Broadcasting Company as a series of podcasts. Each paper can be downloaded separately as a podcast using the links given on the website. The lectures cover topics which include non-violence resistance in the Gaza Strip, conflict resolution in the West bank, the politics of apology. There is extensive coverage of mental health projects in the region. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-14300030 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-14300030 This site provides free access to the full text of a report by Ashley Jackson of Oxfam International which was published in November 2009. Drawing on research from data provided by Afghan Civil Society Forum (ACSF), Afghan Peace and Democracy Act (APDA), Association for the Defence of Women’s Rights (ADWR), Cooperation Centre for Afghanistan (CCA), Education Training Center for Poor Women and Girls of Afghanistan (ECW), Oxfam GB, Organization for Human Welfare (OHW), Sanayee Development Organization (SDO), it critically assessing the human impact of the war against terrorism on the people of Afghanistan during the period 1978-2009.It includes historical background on the conflict and some eye witness accounts. Recommendations for future action are made. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-14164450 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-14164450 Spectrum is the institutional repository of Concordia University, Canada. It provides free open access, where copyright allows, to research outputs from staff and researchers of the university. These cover a wide range of subject areas from the humanities, sciences and social sciences. This section from the faculty of arts and sciences includes references to journal articles, eprints, pre-prints, conference papers, these and dissertations covering a wide range of social science subject areas including anthropology and sociology, psychology, politics. They include materials relating to Canadian history, politics, culture and the culture history and politics of Quebec. Many items are in full text. Copyright information is displayed on the website. Some items are in French. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-12145874 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-12145874 The Kennan Institute and National Public Radio is based in the Woodrow Wilson Center. It provides free online access to a collection of English and Russian radio programmes relating to Soviet and Russian history from the Russian revolution to the end of the Cold war in 1991. These they include recording s of famous people such as Lenin, Kerensky, Kirov, Beria, Stalin, Gorbachev, and others. There is also on-the-scene recorded sound of many events in Soviet history, including: the Russian and American armies meeting at the Elbe; Stalin's funeral; the August 1991 coup against Gorbachev and the Siege of Leningrad. The material comes from Soviet and Russian sources, the NPR archives, the archives of the BBC, and individual donors. Some of the material is in Russian, some in English. Technical and copyright information is displayed on the website. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-12404948 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-12404948 This site is being developed by the HKUST (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Library to enable cross-searching of the research outputs contained in institutional repositories based in Hong Kong. These include materials from Chinese University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Baptist University; Lingnan University; The Hong Kong Institute of Education; The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Hong Kong. Users may search by keyword or browse. Research outputs include journal articles working papers, pre-prints, eprints, conference papers, theses and dissertations, many are offered on free open access. All topics of the sciences, social sciences and humanities are covered. There are particularly detailed materials on Chinese society, history, politics and economics and the history and culture of Hong Kong. Some materials are offered in Chinese only. Copyright information is displayed on the website. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-14591459 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091118-14591459 Thinking with Spinoza: politics, philosophy and religion was a conference held at Birkbeck College, 7th & 8th May 2009. It is available via the Backdoor Broadcasting Company as a series of podcasts. Each paper can be downloaded separately as a podcast using the links given on the website. The lectures cover issues relating to the politics and philosophy of Spinoza. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091117-16082496 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091117-16082496 OpenDataNI is an official website of the Northern Ireland Government. It seeks to provide free open access to datasets produced by data produced by Northern Ireland government departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs). These include official statistics and other datasets which may be downloaded in a range of formats. Data is being added on a rolling basis. Users can keep up to date using twitter and other news feeds. Topics covered include all areas of political, economic and social policy in Northern Ireland. Copyright and technical information is displayed on the website. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091117-15502062 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091117-15502062 This web site is maintained by Nick Clegg, Leader of the Liberal Democrats. It provides free access to his latest postings as well as links to his other social media web 2.0 resources. (Face book, Twitter and YouTube). These offer his personal thoughts on British politics, British political events (such as party political conferences, elections) as well as links to materials on Liberal Democrat policy. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091117-15440116 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091117-15440116 Talk About Local is an example of a project which aims to use information technology and the Internet to encourage local grassroots democracy initiatives. The website contains a blog and information about the project. It includes examples of the way in which British communities are using the internet to encourage greater democracy. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091117-15282131 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091117-15282131 This website provides free access to 1,000s of photographs from the archives of the National Library of Ireland. Resources of key importance for social researchers include the Independent Newspaper collection which contains over 3,000 images from 1912-1936.These are of value for the study of the social and political history of Ireland during this time. They include photographs of political parties (e.g. Sinn Fein) and Irish nationalist organisations. Other collections include: the Lawrence Royal collection of topographical scenes and the Poole collection (comprising over 5,000 studio portraits, plus scenes of social and political events and images of architecture and industry in the south east of Ireland during the early 20th Century.) Copyright information is displayed on the website. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT