Social Work

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Reading Lists

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Got an assignment? Have you looked at the reading list to see lecturer recommendations?

Key Starters for Essays, Projects and Independent Studies

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Identify different sources of information and link to ebooks and other top sources

Finding Articles and Key Practitioner Updates

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Practitioner Updates from CareKnowledge and Community Care Inform are vital sources

Creating a search strategy

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Research Methods

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Newspapers and Magazines

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Films, TV, Radio and Training Videos

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Statistics

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The World Bank's one-stop shop for gender information, providing data from a variety of sources.

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Data about UK households collected by the UK Government.

Health Profiles provide a snapshot overview of health for each local authority in England.

Once you have chosen a region and specific town/city, use the Topic dropdown to get data about topics such as behavioural risk factors or wider determinants of health e.g. children in low income families, homeless households

Access to more than a million statistics from many different sources. Useful for finding industrial, economic and consumer market statistical trends.

Department for Education statistics on pupils in England with SEN, including information on educational attainment, destinations, absence and exclusions. Statistics about Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plans are also included.

Statistics on public health topics

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Official statistics from the UK Government.

 

Recommended Organisations

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Referencing

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Guidance and support for referencing in APA 7, including advice about reference generators

Your Subject Team

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Faculty Librarian

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 Sharon Bittner

Assistant Faculty Librarian

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