Leadership in integrated care systems
Sign up for a free webinar on Leadership in Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) from 1300-1400 on Thursday 6 December 2018. The webinar, organised by the NHS Leadership Academy and NHS England, will examine a...
Tagged: Social sciences
School of Culture Research Seminars
The first of this year’s School of Culture Research Seminars which will be held this week on 14th November, 4pm. The seminar, hosted by The Faculty of Education and Society Research Institute, will take place at Reg Vardy room 111 and is...
New books on the block
Over the summer we’ve started to create a list of the new books we’ve ordered for the School of Social Sciences. The idea is to display the most recent 3 month’s worth of material...
New resource on high street vacancies
The Centre for Cities has recently launched a online map called Building Blocks: Data by City that allows users to compare over 50 UK cities in terms of types of commercial land use, percentage...
Prison History
Whether you are studying criminology or tracing your family history then the Prison History Database will interest you. The database helps you find information on prisons from the nineteenth century in England. At that...
2 million on-demand TV & radio broadcasts now available
We have recently begun a subscription to Box of Broadcasts (BoB), an on-demand TV & radio streaming service. BoB is an educational broadcasting and archives service from the British Universities and Colleges Film and...
Named Social Worker Webinar
The Social Care Institute of Excellence is running a free webinar on 31 July 2118 on the Named Social Worker project. This project included over 200 participants with learning disabilities or mental health issues who...
Evidence Based Iriss Research Reports
We’ve just added Iriss’s Insights to our Social Sciences subject list and individual lists for Community and Youth Work, Health and Social Care and Social Work. Iriss’s Insights are a collection of peer reviewed...
Emerging Perspectives on Violence
The British Society of Criminology North East Branch is holding an event entitled Emerging Perspectives on Violence on Thursday 20 September 2018, from 1400-17002 at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. Speakers include Rowland Atkinson from the University of...
Co-production to Improve Services
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) is hosting a free two-part webinar called Breaking Down the Barriers to Co-production from 1400-1500 on 5 July. The webinars are running as part of Co-production Week...
Community and Youth Work the North East Way
Rick Bowler and Dan Connelly with two of our students Sarah Purves and Amy Collins from Youth and Community Work presented at the conference on Youth Work and Inter-Professional Practice: Building Foundations for Connected...
Study Skills Support: One-to-one appointments, tailored to you.
Our online form is the quick and easy way to request one-to-one support with a study skills adviser or librarian. Just follow the tips below to complete the form and we’ll arrange an appointment...
Open Access Resources for Social Sciences
We’ve just added some new Open Access resources onto our Journal Titles list. The Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research turned Open Access at the end of 2017 and is a useful international academic journal...
Six academic writing habits that will boost productivity
What’s the secret of a productive spell of writing? How do you get down to writing a report, journal article, research paper, your thesis…? Chris Smith shares insights gleaned from interviews with a diverse...
Stay Socially Safe
The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) has published Guidance on Social Media for Registrants (professionals who have completed an approved HCPC programme) on how to best to use social media for practice and...