TSRC - Third Sector Research Centre The Third Sector Research Centre works to enhance knowledge through independent and critical research. In collaboration with practitioners, policy makers, and other academics, we explore the key issues affecting charities and voluntary organisations, community groups, social enterprises, cooperatives and mutuals. News The future of TSRC TSRC's bid to renew our core funding from the ESRC Large Centres and Grants competition has been unsuccessful. Read more... Research Impact What is impact? The Research Excellence Framework defines impact as: "an effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia. Impact includes, but is not limited to, an effect on, change or benefit to: The activity, attitude, awareness, behaviour, capacity, opportunity, performance, policy, practice, process or understanding Of an audience, beneficiary, community, constituency, organisation or individuals In any geographical location whether locally, regionally, nationally or internationally Impact includes the reduction or prevention of harm, risk, cost or other negative effects."
GSR Summer Student Placement Scheme Applicants will be informed of the outcome during the week commencing 10th March. This year the Government Social Research (GSR) Team will be running a scheme for summer vacation placements for social research students whose degree contains a substantial research methods component. Timetable Opening Date: 09:00, Tuesday 18th February 2014 Estimated closing date: 17:00, Thursday 20th February 2-14 Market research news and analysis, qualitative & quantitative research news - Brand Republic Tesco puts better online ad-targeting top of mind The supermarket's data division, Dunnhumby, aims to make digital advertising more personalised, its chief executive, Simon Hay, tells David Benady. Sorrell says Publicis / Omnicom's 'merger of equals' is 'impossible' Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of WPP, has called attempts by rival holding groups, Omnicom and Publicis Groupe to form a £23 bilion "merger of equals" "impossible". Dentsu Aegis is only media network on Government's market research roster Dentsu Aegis, the parent network of Carat and Vizeum, has become the only media network to be appointed to the Government's market research roster which has just been announced.
Social science at the British Library The British Library is a hub for social science research, with vast and varied collections, expert staff and a wide range of events and activities across the social science community. Our department covers a number of different social science disciplines including sociology, social policy, anthropology, sports, human geography, politics, sociolinguistics and business and management studies. As well as collecting materials relevant to the research community, we are committed to supporting knowledge transfer through encouraging discussion, debate and exchange. We do this by:
12 Most Embeddable Social Content Curation Tools Content curation is an important component of a digital marketer’s toolbox. Often just as important as the curation step is deciding how to share with your audience or customers, and a great way to do that is to embed that curated content within your blog or website. These tools can help you do just that.
Speakers Corner Trust When the next typhoon batters the coastal region of a poorer nation, the number of families dislocated, the infrastructures damaged and the crops destroyed will all have been exacerbated by the 20cm rise in sea level that our emissions of carbon dioxide have already triggered. Climate change is the lived reality of many millions of people today, people with little responsibility for the increase in emissions but who nevertheless suffer the consequences. Fossil fuels, whether coal, oil or gas, emit large quantities of carbon dioxide when combusted. Shale gas is no different. In all practical terms it is simply natural gas comprising (by mass) 25% hydrogen and 75% carbon. Wrestling any hydrocarbon from the ground is an inevitably messy, noisy and periodically dangerous and environmentally destructive process.
DataCite: Information for potential clients How can data centres work with the British Library to get DOIs? There are a number of criteria that data centres need to meet in order to use the DataCite service. Data centres can then trial DOI allocation for a short period and, if the outcome is successful, a contract and payment needs to be agreed before we allocate a dedicated DOI prefix to the centre. Data centres who wish to work with us must: BBC Voices - Accents and dialects Short description: Recordings in this collection can be played by anyone. The BBC Voices project provided a snapshot of the linguistic landscape of the UK at the start of the 21st century by encouraging members of the public to contribute their words and reflect on the language they use and encounter in their daily lives. Long description: An online data gathering exercise carried out by BBC Nations and Regions was complemented by an audio strand: the BBC Voices Recordings.
The Listening Project The Listening Project is a partnership between BBC Radio and the British Library that invites people to share an intimate conversation, to be recorded and broadcast by the BBC and, if suitable, curated and archived by the British Library. These conversations will form a unique picture of our lives today, preserved for future generations. Visit The Listening Project website (BBC) and get involved.
Playtimes: A Century of Children's Games and Rhymes From conkers to singing games, rude jokes to fantasy play, Playtimes brings together 100 years of children’s songs, rhymes and games. Explore war battles on bomb sites, rude jokes on council estates, and imaginary TV in the playground, to discover the fascinating world of children’s play. Documenting children’s culture from 1900 to the present day, the website includes footage of boys playing leapfrog (1900); girls dancing to celebrate the end of WWI (1919); children re-enacting battle scenes on bomb sites (1947), and numerous examples of children performing ‘traditional’ songs and games such as ‘in and out the dusty bluebells’, hopscotch, or ‘mummies and daddies’.
Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the Women’s Liberation Movement – British Library Should boys and girls be educated together or separately? Does gender influence career choice? Should women be paid to do housework? Are masculinity and femininity opposites? What is ORCID? As researchers and scholars, you face the ongoing challenge of distinguishing your research activities from those of others with similar names. You need to be able to easily and uniquely attach your identity to research objects such as datasets, equipment, articles, media stories, citations, experiments, patents, and notebooks. As you collaborate across disciplines, institutions, and borders, you must interact with an increasing number and diversity of research information systems.
Social Research Association (SRA) RESPECT code of practice for Socio-Economic Research by raviii Jul 16