ActionAid – international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty

BBC – help to spot false news

Britannica – Lifestyles and Social Issues

Britannica – Politics, Law and Government

Happiful magazine – free e-magazine aiming to provide informative, inspiring and topical stories about mental health and wellbeing

Issues is a series of short e-books on current topics such as citizenship and identity, globalisation, environmental issues, drugs and alcohol, welfare. If you are accessing this database from home you will need to log in using your SGS student number (eg – sgs123456) and the same password you use to log in to the computers in college.

Issues Online – using images, graphs, infographics, videos and glossaries to help students and teachers understand information covering a wide range of PSHE subjects, lessons and social issues.

Mrs America – episodes on BBC iPlayer

Nursing Times – up-to-date articles with news on nursing and healthcare policy and practice

Office for National Statistics – the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK

People Like Us – podcast on the relationships between race and class

Poverty and Social exclusion in the UK is a research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council

The British Sociological Association has background information on sociology, research resources, and a jobs page.

The Commonwealth – voluntary association of countries with shared goals of development, democracy and peace

The Conversation: Politics and Society – an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community

The Guardian newspaper Sociology section includes news articles, podcasts and information about notable sociologists.

The Student Room – a student community that exists for every student to use to support each other

Volunteering opportunities in Bristol