On 14 Feb 2025, CILIP’s Community, Diversity & Equality Group hosted a webinar presented by Ghada Dimashk, an experienced Archivist and Metadata Librarian specializing in Middle Eastern heritage with a focus on preserving and cataloguing cultural heritage of Lebanon and Palestine. “The fight against erasure is a critical effort to preserve the identities, narratives,
This is an independent, evidence-based research paper written by Almuth McDowall, Julia Gawronska, Kevin Teoh and Alexandra Beauregard at Birkbeck, University of London.
The 2019 United Nations General Assembly declared that the years of 2022 to 2032 will encompass the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. Within this context, information Science (IC) and knowledge or- ganization (OC) play a central role in the construction of policies and actions aimed at preserving indigenous lan- guages. As such, our research aimed to diagnose, make propositions, and run preliminary tests in an Institutional Repository (IR) of a Brazilian Federal University. More specifically, this work regards the inclusion of metadata to represent indigenous scien- tific production. The main operations in this study included the creation and adaptation of metadata fields in the Dublin Core scheme. These were to specifically indicate indigenous collective authorship, indigenous names in an authorship, summaries in indigenous language, keywords in indigenous language, and title in indigenous language.
This report presents the findings from the British Academy-commissioned project, Language Skills and Capabilities in the UK Research Base, which set out to examine and evidence the recognition, role and use of multilingualism in UK academic research fields outside Modern Languages.
Workshop | Global Activism for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Challenges and Opportunities in the Anthropocene
This workshop took place on 12 March, shared research that explores strategies and opportunities used by Indigenous peoples and their allies to advance their rights. The aim was to understand the innovations in strategies used by Indigenous peoples for mobilisation, the risks and obstacles they face in advocating for their rights, the range of allies they draw upon to advance their goals, and their impact on changing international and regional norms governing their rights and/or intersecting with their rights, including in thematic areas such as culture rights, business and human rights, and environmental justice. This recording of the opening panel 'Indigenous People’s Mobilisation through International Mechanisms' with speakers features four Indigenous leaders discussing examples of Indigenous leadership in, and use of, international mechanisms for protection of their rights.
Daniel Kobei, Executive Director of the Ogiek Peoples Development Programme, which led a successful case at the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights; Dr Ojot Miru, Africa region Member of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, discussing regional initiatives on business and human rights; Dr Hirok Jyoti Ray, reviewing Indigenous peoples use of the World Bank Inspection Panel from India; Mr Kaeden Watts, discussing Indigenous peoples’ leadership in regional and national climate change activism in the Pacific and Aotearoa/New Zealand.
This blog looks at some of the material held in LSE Library relating to women and Africa. The Library has recently put together a digital archive of its resources and has an online curated collection allowing you to only search for items published in Africa, writes Gillian Murphy. Caption: Elizabeth Makeking with some of
a collaboration between the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World library NYU and institutions in the South Caucasus. The DSCC is a collection in the Ancient World Digital Library (AWDL), It aims to link to high quality online resources covering archaeology and ancient history. It is currently digitising resources from Georgia in languages of the region.
In this year’s annual British Journal of Sociology lecture, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will review the basics of his “racialized social system” with a focus on explaining how he has improved the theoretical apparatus over the years.
Specifically, dealing with the import of racial ideology (color-blind racism) and racial grammar as swell as the matter of “racialized emotions” as central to maintain racial order. The lecture will explore his recent and ongoing work on (white) normativity and racial habituation, racial subjects and RWF (regular white folks henceforth), and the various roads to change.
Racism affects not only people’s health and well-being but their economic lives too. The broad costs of racism also include an unnecessary financial burden on the NHS and a cost to the economy according to a new paper released today by the NHS Race and Health Observatory.
New digital collection from Penn State University. The Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 was a scientific expedition along the coast of Alaska undertaken by famous N. American naturalists. The library has transcribed the diaries of the Chaplain Nelson’s diary and researched the geographic and tribal origins of indigenous art works which they acquired, reinterpreting them by considering colonial pasts. The website contains sections of diaries and details of the project with consideration of how to examine and read ‘difficult topics’ relating to colonial history.
Summarises the evidence about the experiences of young people from Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic communities in the child protection system and shares learning for best practice.
Share on (opens in a new window) Share on (opens in a new window) Share on (opens in a new window) Share on (opens in a new window) Share on (opens in a new window) Copy This report, which surveyed 142 Black-heritage people living with HIV in London, has identified distinct barriers to receiving...
The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.
LSE Blogs has launchedActivism, Influence and Change with the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. The new research blog will explore how citizens affect change and influence power in a society disillusioned with mainstream politics and will be used to build a network for academics and activists interested in change-making efforts globall
The autistic-led project explores how autistic adults employ a range of objects, services and creatures to support their wellbeing. The study’s findings offer insights into the everyday and creative ways that autistic people understand, (re)imagine and engage with non-human support activities, practices and things.
The report presents 'portraits' and narratives of 12 autistic Australians. The graphically illustrated portraits of each participant use words and images to depict the challenges they face, the supports they use to help them cope with these challenges and their special interests.
The interview questions asked participants about the kinds of supports (other than people) they use as part of their everyday lives: for entertainment and leisure, connection with others, cultivating a special interest, dealing with burnout or sensory challenges, and promoting health and wellbeing. Finally, the participants were asked to imagine the ideal new support to best fit their needs.
Amnesty’s new report ‘Automated Racism’ reveals dangerous discrimination in police prediction tools Almost three-quarters of police forces attempt to predict crime by racially profiling communities across the UK
ACEVO and Voice4Change England’s Anti-Racism Companion Journal .This companion journal offers insights on vital topics that can advance anti-racism and race equity in civil society and beyond. It is designed to help you develop your own practice on anti-racism and race equity, as well as that of your organisation and those you work with.
They are the children of the Black Panther party – the self-styled Panther cubs. Born into the 1970s revolutionary movement for Black equality and self-determination, they have lived in the shadows of a promised land that was never attained
These datasets provide measures of Social Capital for MSOAs, postal code districts, and local authorities in the United Kingdom based on data from Facebook. The UK social capital dataset is the result of a collaboration between Meta, Behavioural Insights Team, the Royal Society of Arts, Stripe Partners, Neighbourly Lab and researchers from Opportunity Insights, New York University, and Stanford University. We use methods from the differential privacy literature to add noise to these aggregate statistics to protect privacy while maintaining a high level of statistical reliability.
See the accompanying README.pdf for more information on the dataset. We also attach a summary of research findings which highlights the main results of the research.
The methods used to create the dataset as well as the main findings of research into social capital in the UK can be found in the pre-print article. We will soon post the link to the pre-print article for researchers to cite when using this dataset. Until then, a copy of the article is available in the materials below. Access the UK Social Capital Atlas dataset to support humanitarian efforts.
A new poll commissioned by The Repair Campaign shows a gulf in public knowledge about Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery and colonialism. The majority of those polled were unable to correctly answer questions on this topic.
This magnificent portal is supported by a group of leading organisations in the field of languages, skills and education
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The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
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It aims to provide links to high quality learning resources for all age groups and levels in major languages These include classical languages as well as modern languages from around the world. Browse links to courses, teaching and educational materials by language age group and level. Including adult remote learning and paid providers as well as free. All materials curated and assessed.
A new report about race and racism in child safeguarding reveals local areas are failing to address the safeguarding needs of Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage children.
Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries is an RLUK programme of events that aims to foster conversation around decolonisation and inclusive practice https://www.rluk.ac.uk/icil-on-demand/#gsloc
This presentation by Guha Shankar, folklorist and cultural anthropologist at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, surveys an initiative of the US national library to collaborate with a Native American community and developers of cutting-edge digital technology to address critical issues in cultural representation, co-curation, intellectual access, knowledge repatriation and preservation. On the one hand, the initiative foregrounds native communities as authorities over their cultural histories and heritage materials by integrating their own representations and cultural knowledge into library catalog records. On the other hand, the repatriation efforts provide the community with the materials necessary to revitalise dormant traditional cultural expressions by re-incorporating them into contemporary practice.
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