New Books for Social Sciences for February
We’ve added the February new items that have come in as eBooks or paperbacks for our collection onto our New Resources for School of Social Sciences Autumn – Winter 2020/21 list. Here’s a flavour...
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Using Twitter in Your Research Webinar
Are you doing research for a dissertation or a PhD? Interested in incorporating Twitter data into it? Then you might want to sign up for the UK Data Service’s forthcoming free webinar The Twitter...
Women and COVID-19
This week has marked one year since we joined the rest of the United Kingdom in locking down for the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Association of Librarians and Information Professionals in...
Policy Press eJournal Articles
Studying Social Work? Policy Press are celebrating Social Work Week with free access to a collection of eJournal articles through their Social Work Collection which focus on social justice and global support. These articles...
Using Venn Diagrams when Searching on HeinOnline
Are you a visual learner? Then you might like this graphic feature on HeinOnline. You can get HeinOnline to display a Venn Diagram of your search in the Law Journal Library HeinOnline’s Tip of...
Social Work Week 2021
For those of you studying Social Work it’s Social Work Week from 8-12 March. Social Work England is organising a programme of online events and you can sign up for these for free. The...
New Books for January
We’ve added the January print books and eBooks which have freshly arrived for Social Sciences onto our New Resources for School of Social Sciences Autumn-Winter 2020/21 list. You’ll see we’ve add the eBook tag...
Getting the Latest eJournal Articles
Are you in the process of doing eJournal searches for your research project or dissertation? Alerts can save you time so you don’t have to keep running your searches time and time again. You...
Disability Playlist for Social Sciences
Studying Sociology, Social Work (Integrated Degree Apprenticeship or Masters) Criminology, Health and Social Care or Professional Policing? I’ve put together a Disability BBC playlist on BoB focusing on recent programmes profiling disabilities. Peter Wright...
LGBT History Month 2021
February 2021’s LGBT History Month theme is body, mind and spirit. Uncover our collection of material on LGBT health issues and mental health. Interested in mind, body and health? Find more reading on the...
ScholarCheck Citation Tool on HeinOnline
Remember our blog post on citation trails? The post demonstrated how to use backward and forward techniques to find more material on your search topic. In addition these techniques are useful for checking the...
New Social Science Books and eBooks
We’ve just added the November and December new books and eBooks to our Social Sciences collection and onto our New Resources for School of Social Sciences list. Highlights from these two months include:...
Gender Stereotypes and Childhood
The Fawcett Society’s UK Commission on Gendered Stereotypes has published a report Unlimited Potential. The report examines the negative effects gender stereotyping has on the development and potential of girls and boys. It uncovers...
COVID-19 – Building Back Better
This week we have come up trumps with a range of topical reports on inequality and the COVID-19 pandemic for those of you studying Childhood Studies. Health and Social Care, Sociology and Inequality and...
Early Years Miracle
If you’re following the BA Childhood Studies then you’ll like this episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme Analysis The Early Years Miracle which examines the impact of free schooling in the early years....