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...
Medicine Management: Liquid and Tablet Doses (Online)
Starts: 10 Mar 2026, 9:30 amFinishes: 10 Mar 2026, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 59This 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.Develop your confidence in speaking [ONLINE]
Starts: 10 Mar 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 10 Mar 2026, 2:00 pmIn this workshop we will explore what is stopping us from speaking up and understand the benefits of speaking to others. We will practise speaking in a safe space and share strategies to boost our confidence. This workshop is useful for any undergraduate and postgraduate level student wanting to develop their confidence in speaking in different situations.Introducing EndNote [Online]
Starts: 10 Mar 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 10 Mar 2026, 3:00 pmRemaining places: 92In this workshop we will learn how to use EndNote to save and manage information sources, and automatically create citations and references.Medicine Management: Liquid and Tablet Doses (Online)
Starts: 12 Mar 2026, 9:30 amFinishes: 12 Mar 2026, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 65This 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.Doing a literature review [Online]
Starts: 12 Mar 2026, 5:00 pmFinishes: 12 Mar 2026, 6:30 pmRemaining places: 78In this workshop you will develop your literature review skills. We will explore the aims behind a literature review, how to carry out your search, how to critically assess your sources and how to structure your review.Medicine Management: IV: Drip Rates and Infusions [online]
Starts: 17 Mar 2026, 9:30 amFinishes: 17 Mar 2026, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 64This session will look at medicine management assessment questions relating to Drip Rates and Infusions and is suitable for any students required to complete these assessments. This session will be delivered online.Finding and using journal articles and databases [Online]
Starts: 17 Mar 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 17 Mar 2026, 3:00 pmThis workshop explores what journal articles and databases are and why they are useful.Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exam session [On Campus]
Starts: 18 Mar 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 18 Mar 2026, 3:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 2This one-hour EXAM SESSION for MOS certification takes place ON CAMPUS. At the time of booking, you must have scored over 70% in GMetrix's 'Testing' mode for your chosen application. Bookings not meeting this criterion will be cancelled.Constructing and Deconstructing Arguments [ONLINE]
Starts: 18 Mar 2026, 5:00 pmFinishes: 18 Mar 2026, 6:00 pmRemaining places: 27This workshop explores the content of academic arguments, examples of good and bad argumentation, and some common logical fallacies.Medicine Management: IV: Drip Rates and Infusions [online]
Starts: 19 Mar 2026, 9:30 amFinishes: 19 Mar 2026, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 69This session will look at medicine management assessment questions relating to Drip Rates and Infusions and is suitable for any students required to complete these assessments. This session will be delivered online.