Workshops
We offer a wide range of academic skills workshops delivered online and in-person on campus.
Academic Skills Workshops
Elevate your skills and knowledge with us!
This is a great place to start if you want to:
- Improve your study, research and writing skills
- Develop your IT and digital skills
- Focus on your maths and numeracy.
Workshops are added regularly, so keep checking back to see what's new!
Workshop topics
Library Welcome
Study, Research and Writing
- Academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism
- Academic writing for assessments, including:
- Assessment structure
- Critical and analytical writing
- Paraphrasing
- Constructing and deconstructing arguments
- Developing confidence in speaking
- Doing a literature review
- EndNote
- Finding information, including:
- Databases
- Journal articles
- Library Search (library catalogue)
- Reading lists
- Referencing
- Writing at a UK University
- Writing Café
IT and Digital
- Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Creating academic posters
- Creating narrated presentations
- Formatting dissertations/theses
- Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exams
Maths and Numeracy
- Basic Algebra
- Graduate Numerical Reasoning Tests
- Medicine Management (Drug Calculations)
- Trigonometry Refresher
Coming up...
IT Essentials at Salford [Online]
Starts: 3 Feb 2026, 4:00 pmFinishes: 3 Feb 2026, 5:00 pmRemaining places: 90This workshop will introduce you to the main IT tools, resources and services you need to get started as a student at the University of Salford. This workshop will be delivered online.Writing Clear Sentences: From Simple to Complex [online]
Starts: 5 Feb 2026, 4:00 pmFinishes: 5 Feb 2026, 5:30 pmThis workshop will guide you to create clear, simple sentences, and effective compound and complex ones.10-Week Basic Algebra Refresher Course Week 2 (Expanding Brackets)
Starts: 6 Feb 2026, 10:00 amFinishes: 6 Feb 2026, 11:30 amRemaining places: 50Week 2 10-Week Algebra Refresher Course covering 'Expanding Brackets'. Course starts Friday 30th January 2026. Follow the link for full details.Medicine Management: Liquid and Tablet Doses (Online)
Starts: 9 Feb 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 9 Feb 2026, 4:00 pmRemaining places: 58This session will look at the different types of medicine management assessment questions relating to liquid and tablet doses. This is a calculator-based session suitable for students required to complete medicine management assessments. This workshop will be delivered online.Writing Clear Sentences: From Simple to Complex
Starts: 10 Feb 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 10 Feb 2026, 1:30 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, CW Learning Suite 2Remaining places: 17This workshop will guide you to create clear, simple sentences, and effective compound and complex ones.Writing Proper Paragraphs [online]
Starts: 10 Feb 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 10 Feb 2026, 2:00 pmRemaining places: 12Writing Proper ParagraphsWriting Lab [ONLINE]
Starts: 11 Feb 2026, 5:00 pmFinishes: 11 Feb 2026, 6:00 pmRemaining places: 38The writing lab offers a combination of warm up exercises, writing based Q&A and a chance to experiment with and share your writing with others for constructive feedback.Medicine Management: Liquid and Tablet Doses (Online)
Starts: 12 Feb 2026, 9:30 amFinishes: 12 Feb 2026, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 70This session will look at the different types of medicine management assessment questions relating to liquid and tablet doses. This is a calculator-based session suitable for students required to complete medicine management assessments. This workshop will be delivered online.Get started with Library Search and searching the web well [Online]
Starts: 12 Feb 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 12 Feb 2026, 3:00 pmRemaining places: 96This workshop will show you how to find and use academic information for your assessments.Using Punctuation for Style and Clarity [Online]
Starts: 13 Feb 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 13 Feb 2026, 2:30 pmRemaining places: 46This workshop introduces a range of punctuation marks, including commas, colons, and semicolons, to help make your writing clear and effective.