Staff with caregiving responsibilities in UK higher education: Findings from a national study
A recent national study in UK Higher Education reveals that staff with caregiving responsibilities face significant challenges in both their working and personal lives. The study has a literature review on juggling caring for family and relatives with work in both academic and professional roles. It includes coverage of career progression, time management and institutional policies.
Voluntary sector, learning disabilities and autism, and digital inequalities webinars
The Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Beckett University has launched a series of free online webinars covering tips and guidance. You can view and download the: • animation about ‘Six top tips for community organisations‘ • evidence briefing about ‘Digital accessibility for voluntary sector organisations delivering services to people with learning disabilities and autistic […]
Saferpolitics.org
A University of Liverpool project in co-operation with the Local Government Association, Saferpolitics.org includes a series of online safety toolkits and 3 training modules to support political parties, local and national politicians, and their communication staff in using social media as safely as possible and in knowing what to do and where to go if […]
Economic Wellbeing Explorer
This new data resource has been recently launched by Smart Data Foundry. It intends to enable researchers, policy makers and journalists to explore mapped statistical datasets relating to financial well-being at national, regional, and local levels in the UK. Top-level insights will be available for free at a national and regional level, with deeper insights at a local […]
Black Social Worker Oral History Project
This project is led by staff at Coventry University’s Centre for Peace and Security. It has collected materials relating to 19 Black social workers who have worked with and supported vulnerable children in care since the 1970s. The website includes their oral history accounts and a timeline of key policies relating to race and social […]
Soldier magazine archive online
80-year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, Soldier, has been digitised and is now available online for free. It covers the period 1945 onwards and includes news stories, letters from army personnel, and original adverts. This edition from 1949 has examples of adverts, accounts of postings in Singapore. NOTE: outdated and unacceptable language and […]
Direction of AI Innovation in the UK
This report from Institute for Public Policy Research outlines the AI innovation landscape in the UK to determine which type of AI deployment is and is not currently taking place. It is based on a database of 3,256 AI firms in the UK to identify ‘AI deployment gaps’, and make recommendations for how they can […]
200 paintings for 200 years
A chronological catalogue of in-depth reference cards for 200 of the most famous resources. The catalogues have images, x-rays, details on provenance, exhibitions and detailed lists for further reading
National Gallery 200th anniversary new resources
The Imaginarium offers sound poetry and animation to explore paintings from the National Gallery collection.
2025 Spring Statement resources
UK government background briefing: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10220/Spring Statement Information: https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/spring-statement-2025Forecasts for UK economyOffice of Budget Responsibility- https://obr.uk/ AnalysisIFS analysis: https://ifs.org.uk/collections/spring-statement-2025Institute for Government: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rachel-reeves-spring-statement NIESR: https://niesr.ac.uk/blog/spring-statement-2025-fiscal-rules-growth-pressures-and-policy-choices More links to newspapers and analyses: https://alissresearch.blogspot.com/2025/03/spring-statement-2025.html
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