Abstract
The Race, Ethnicity and Antiracism Learning (REAL) resource bank for the social sciences in higher education 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. 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. 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.