Welcome to the REAL Resource Bank

Welcome to the Race, Ethnicity and Antiracism Learning (REAL) resource bank for the social sciences in higher education. The bank is intended to offer an easy-to-access resource site for university educators who teach race and ethnicity topics across a range of social science subjects and related disciplines. Some of the resources may be suitable for use with students in class, others may help students to structure their self-guided learning, while others may act as helpful reference points for lecturers. The resource bank is organised into different sections, encompassing top tips for teaching race and ethnicity, curriculum and pedagogical guidance, and addressing ethnic inequalities in higher education, followed by various categories of teaching resources, including key people, books (academic and popular), journal articles, reports, guides, strategies, magazine articles, blogposts, websites, documentaries, lectures, debates, podcasts, video and audio clips, film, music, poetry, photography, interactive teaching resources, and resources for schools. Additional markers specify whether teaching resources may be more suitable for general or subject specific purposes.

The resource bank has been developed from a wider research project on university educators’ views and experiences of teaching race and ethnicity topics to students in the social sciences. ‘Exploring Race and Ethnicity on Social Science Degree Programmes’ was a Santander Universities funded study running from 2021-24 and involving a national survey of educators at 30 UK universities and five subsequent focus groups. The research aimed to contribute to pedagogical debates about how race and ethnicity topics are approached in university classrooms across different social science disciplines, and how educators can best be supported in this endeavour. 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).

Most items featured in the REAL resource bank were put forward either by research participants of the above project, or colleagues associated with University of Brighton, as items they had found useful in their own teaching. These suggestions were made in response to dedicated open-ended questions forming part of the national survey, during some of the focus groups, and/or in response to email calls for further ideas from colleagues. The listings are not intended as definitive recommendations from the project team, and readers should make their own judgements as to which items would be 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. Special thanks go to Bridie Budgen, Emily Campbell, and Madeleine Manning, all of whom helped Peter Hemming prepare the resource item listings for inclusion in the bank during their A-Level work experience at University of Surrey. Sincere thanks also to all the project participants and colleagues who put forward resource suggestions for the bank – their contributions are much appreciated.

To cite this resource bank:

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. Available at: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/realresourcebank/