When you need help what should you do?
Our Study Skills Drop-ins are back this semester and are concentrating on study skills. You might be asking yourself ‘why?’. Well it’s a result of our analysis of the type of queries students had...
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Saving your Discover searches
If you’re using our Discover service to find journal articles you might find yourself having done a search and found some really good results but forgotten to log in to your Discover account. You...
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...
Open Access Week
Open Access Week ran from 20-26 Oct 2020 with a theme To be Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion encouraging all stakeholders in the provision of Open Access...
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...
Early Years Educational Recharge
Half term has been and gone but it’s not too late to use the Early Education’s New Blog: Five Top Pedagogical Picks for Half Term post full of tips for getting ideas on lesson planning...
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...
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...
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...
Community Integration Case Studies
The British Academy has published a set of reports advising communities how to best help newly arrived asylum seekers, migrants and refugees and improve community relationships using case studies. The reports are aimed at...
Social Science and Economic Data
Data is a researcher’s bread and butter so you’ll be interested in gesisDataSearch – a new search engine which holds data from across social sciences and economics. It’s now in beta mode and you can find...