Shape Early Years and Children’s Reading
Are you engaged in teaching children reading skills? Do you want to widen the reading material you use in an early years setting or in primary school? Then we’ll share with you our hot...
Category: Subject support
Health Information Week
It’s Health Information Week from 5-11 July 2021 so why not celebrate the week by browsing through our eBooks in Health and Social Care? We have added to the collection published from 2016 to...
Sunderland Creatives – celebrate with our final year Art and Design degree students
Join us online on Tuesday 13th July to celebrate the achievements of our final year undergraduate students in the School of Art and Design. The online event is happening at 6pm and you can...
Web Scraping for Researchers
Are you researcher? Are you using website stories and news articles in your research? Then you might find it worth attending a free webinar Web Scraping with Google Chrome on 24 June 2021. The...
Research in Dance Education – latest issues now out
Calling all dance and performing arts students and staff! Here at Sunderland University Library we have access to ‘Research in Dance Education’ from 2000 to up to the present day. This journal aims to...
Students 4 Best Evidence (S4BE) Blog
Students 4 Best Evidence (S4BE) is a network for students interested in evidence-based health care. Students from all health disciplines are welcome to join. They aim to answer questions on evidence-based health care, such as:...
British Journal of Photography – highlighting recent issues
This week we are featuring a key journal in photography – the British Journal of Photography. Journals are an excellent source of research material as they are where you’ll find recently published research and...
What is “Graphic Medicine”?
Graphic Medicine is the intersection between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare. Dr Ian Williams The website Graphic Medicine explores the interaction between the medium of comics and the discourse of...
Are you interested in teaching? Or sculpture? Or both?
Art UK have curated a collection of resources along with suggestions as to how you can use them in teaching. If you’re interested in going into art teaching, you could use these resources as...
Pressing Matters – come in and read!
This week we are featuring Pressing Matters which celebrates the passion and processes behind modern printmaking. You can consult this journal when you’re at the Murray Library. It is shelved with the other art...
Techniques of chintz
Calling all of our fashion students! Did you know that the word chintz refers to a technique rather than the fabric itself? So starts an article from London’s Fashion and Textile Museum. Read about...
New Theatre Quarterly – latest issues now available online
Do you ever wonder what journals the library subscribes to for performing arts and music? This week we are spotlighting the ‘New Theatre Quarterly‘ which you access online via the Journals button on the...
New playlists from Box of Broadcasts
How often have you thought, ‘Oh, I wish I’d see that programme’ when it had been broadcast?’, or ‘I’ve missed watching this other programme on catch-up’? This is where Box of Broadcasts, fondly known...
Extensive music collections – explore the British Library!
The British Library has an extensive collection of resources which you can use to inform your studies and research. Here are an eclectic selection to whet your appetite! Did you know they have Beethoven’s...
Black Lives Matter – a Year On
It’s a year this week since the killing of George Floyd in the United States and I’ve pulled together a number of programmes from the British Box of Broadcasts (BoB) which look at current...