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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Originally compiled to assist students with dyslexia and special needs, AbilityNet’s great blog posting has tips on apps for motivation and focus when studying which will help everyone. If you’re busy revising or finishing...
Education Research Complete is a new database available via Discover containing full text journal articles, conference papers and books. It contains the full text of: over 1,300 journals over 2,500 education related conference papers access to over...