Inclusive resources
This guide is designed to support staff and students access diverse and inclusive resources for teaching, learning, and research.
Please see our quick 5 minutes guide to evaluating research and creating inclusive citations in your work
Alternative media
Many traditional sources such as books and journal articles can quite often present predominantly Eurocentric and Global North perspectives, consulting alternative media sources that offer marginalised and new voices more of a platform can help to balance out the biases.
Media Diversified is a non profit platform that is working to enrich, engage and improve the UKs media landscape. It’s mission is to challenge the homogeneity of voices in the UK media news, through addressing the under-representation of global majority communities.
- UK titles ranging from broadsheets such as The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and the Independent, and the tabloid press.
- Regional titles including The Kentish Gazette, Kent Messenger, Kentish Express
- Magazines available in a wide range of subjects : News & current affairs, Computing, Fashion, Health & Fitness, History, LGBTQ, Travel and many others
- Coverage is back to 2004 where available.
Don’t forgot that alternative sources such as TED talks, YouTube and social media sites can also offer other perspectives.
Curated resources
Personal narratives are a powerful way to introduce different perspectives into subject areas, read our blogpost on collections we have created to support this and leisure reading:
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/diversitymarktoolkit/2023/07/03/expanding-narratives/
Explore our list of curated:
alternative publishers and resources
Look at some of our diverse digital collections for example filter via Diversity on the Digital Resources Directory
Multimedia
Surviving society podcast is a multimedia platform which produces creative and authoritative interventions on the political issues and social histories which shape contemporary society. Our work is informed, facilitated and inspired by a breadth of local and global scholarship focused on race and class, anti-racism and sociology.
Proquest Global South collection
Libby Libby Kent is leisure collection of e-books and audiobooks. Choose from a wide range of genres including contemporary fiction, classic fiction, wellbeing and self-help books, themed reading lists such as LGBT titles and Black Asian and Ethnic Minority authored titles, and more.
Kanopy – Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries Kanopy covers many subjects and contains over 30,000 movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos. Stream content to a preferred device and create clips and playlists.