Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during April. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: A critical evaluation of the implementation process of a person-centred model of care in a new dementia specific care home. By Christopher Poyner http://hdl.handle.net/1893/29256 Interdisciplinary Learning: A Chimera of […]
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Are you using the best research methods?
Supporting research at all levels Sage Research Methods brings you books, chapters, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos. See Case Studies of real research projects and find real datasets for use in teaching. A ‘Methods Map’ helps to navigate the various research methods find the best techniques. Access Sage Research Methods via the A-Z […]
Blue button phishing attack resurfaces
Earlier this week, variants of the blue button phishing email scam were circulated and unfortunately a number of accounts have been compromised as a result. Subsequently, user details including username and password were harvested. In this instance the attacker did not use the harvested details until this afternoon, when it emerged that a number of […]
Help with Chicago Referencing Style
Are you studying History, English or Religion? Do you need help with referencing in the Chicago style? We have a new online resource which might help – the Chicago Manual of Style. Part III of this publication has information on Source Citations and contains detailed information about citing different resource types. Wondering how to cite […]
You said, we did – Where do I get help.
You Said I don’t know where to get help We Did We love to help you! There are a number of places in the library that you can get help or ask us a question; Library reception (the desk at the Library entrance)Library reception staff can help you with accessing the library building, they can […]
You Said, We Did – Ebooks
You said “Buy more ebooks.” We did: In 2018, we added over 30,000 ebooks to the collection.We did this is a number of ways. For every book order received, we check for the availability of an ebook on a suitable model (e.g. we avoid titles that only allow a single concurrent user) and at a […]
We love you too ….
Thanks so much to everyone who took the time out to write us a letter for Valentine’s day. We were overwhelmed by the response. (We especially liked the person who left us the red rose – We are blushing) On the whole, it seems that we must be doing something right as the majority of […]
New Scam… Smishing (scam by text message).
We have had a report that a student at another University has received a SMS Phishing message (text message) purporting to be from the University. The message states that the student’s attendance is below 60% and as such is in breach of their student loan terms. It then goes on to state that they need […]
Society Digimap – free trial
Explore a range of demographic data with the newest Digimap collection: Society Digimap which is available free until until 31st July 2019. Society Digimap contains a wealth of census and socio-economic data. The datasets are provided as layers to visualise along with high quality Ordnance Survey data allowing users to gain insight to their areas […]
New scam email….your credit card has been invoiced….
…but of course it hasn’t… We’re starting to see a number of emails being sent to staff with the core message that your credit card has been invoiced to the tune of usually around £1,600. The text in the body of the email so far is completely different between users, the sender email is different […]