Academic Skills Service for Students

Workshops for Students

Academic Skills offer a calendar of workshops available to book here. These workshops support all Undergraduate and Taught Master’s Students in finding, using, and managing information.

• First Year In: Get off to a flying start and learn about using scholarly sources, using the Library catalogue & getting the most out of your Library to make your first year a success.
• Finding Articles and Books: Learn about the main features of the Library catalogue, how to search for scholarly articles, books and ebooks, search for topics on the Library catalogue and refine results, and discover databases relevant to your subject area.
• Cite Them Right: Learn the basics of referencing, tools to help you manage your references and tips on maintaining good academic integrity including emerging challenges such as contract cheating and AI.
•  Literature Review: An Introduction to Searching the Literature: Learn how to narrow a topic to create a research question, create a search strategy using Boolean commands, truncation and wildcards, identify potential sources and think critically about the information that you encounter.
• Endnote for Citing & Referencing: Learn how to use Endnote to manage your reference library and use Cite While You Write (CWYW) to cite and reference your sources.