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Find the Latest Material on My Module Reading Lists

We’ve just added some new titles on business planning onto the My Module Resources (MMR) list for SSCM04 Exploring Social Entrepreneurship and CYW319 Entrepreneurship and Project Management: Social entrepreneurship: a skills approach by Chris Durkin and Robert...

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Learning Outdoors

If you missed it it’s not too late to catch up with the BBC Radio 4 episode of Four Thought broadcast on Wednesday 18 April which discusses the benefits of children learning outdoors from...

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Emerging Perspectives on Violence

The North East Branch of the British Society of Criminology are running a free event on 20 September 2018 from 2-5pm on Emerging Perspectives on Violence at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. Speakers include: Rowland Atkinson (University...

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Thinking Allowed

Did you know you can catch episodes of the BBC Radio 4 series Thinking Allowed on the BBC iPlayer? The series covers topics in sociology and many of the presenters are members of the...

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Identity, Community and Social Solidarity conference

The British Sociological Association’s annual conference is taking place under the theme of Identity, Community and Social Solidarity at Northumbria University from 10-12 April 2018. The conference examines how individuals and different communities can...

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Post-truth conference paper stems tide of cynicism

Professor Tim May’s conference paper Meaning, Validity, Expertise: Lessons for Social Research from the Era of Post-Truth delivered at the Social Research Association’s conference Research in a Sceptical Age on 6 December 2017 is...