The REAL Resource Bank
Race, Ethnicity and Antiracism Learning. Report by Joyce Thornton.
This truly excellent and comprehensive resource bank is a gift to anyone interested in issues around race inequality. Initially intended for use in Social Sciences within universities, it gathers a huge scope of resources and references into one, easily accessible place to inform, support and educate staff and students across many, many disciplines.
Key people are highlighted - writers, artists, and activists as well as foundational theorists and subject specific scholars.
Organised into clear sections, it has varied categories and includes websites, books, podcasts, reports, strategies, guides, magazine articles, blogposts, journal articles, video and audio clips, film, music, poetry, photography and more! Key people are highlighted - writers, artists, and activists as well as foundational theorists and subject specific scholars. There are teaching tips, curriculum and pedagogical guidance and interactive teaching resources.
Developed from an earlier, wider research project funded by Santander that ran from 2021- 2024, it has involved a national survey of educators at 30 UK universities and five focus groups. The project was led by Dr Peter Hemming (University of Surrey), Lis Bundock (University of Brighton) and Rosie Moore (University College London), with assistance from Bettina Teegen (University of Surrey), and Nisrin Chamlal Zinane (University of Surrey), Sarah Harrison (University of Surrey), Ananya Nair (University of Brighton), Varsha Satyavaram (University of Surrey), and Shona Williamson (University of Brighton).
The project team note,” the listings are not intended as definitive recommendations, and readers should make their own judgements as to which items would be the most useful and appropriate for their needs. Similarly, the short summaries of each listed item (which were created with the assistance of generative artificial intelligence) are meant as approximate indicators rather than comprehensive synopses and should act primarily as a starting point for further exploration”.
The REAL Resource Bank: Race, Ethnicity and Antiracism Learning:
Hemming, P.J., Bundock, L., Moore, R., Teegen, B.C., Chamlal Zinane, N., Harrison, S., Nair, A., Satyavaram, V., Williamson, S., Budgen, B., Campbell, E. & Manning, M. (2025) The REAL Resource Bank: Race, Ethnicity and Antiracism Learning for the Social Sciences in Higher Education, Brighton: University of Brighton.
https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/realresourcebank/