Learning at University

We have produced guidance to help you make the step up to University-standard work.

 

Academic Skills Workshops

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Elevate your skills and knowledge with us!

This is a great place to start if you want to:

  • Improve your study and research 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!

Be a successful independent learner

What is covered:

  • the expectations of study at higher education level
  • the skills needed for independent study
  • active participation, and control of, your learning
  • your responsibilities as a learner in relation to engaging with your studies online and face to face.

Estimated duration is 15 minutes.

Reflective practice

What is covered:

  • the benefits of regular reflective practice
  • how it can help you to achieve academic and professional success
  • introduction to a range of reflective models to help strengthen your practice.

Estimated duration is 15 minutes.

Developing your confidence for studying at University

What is covered:

  • what academic confidence is
  • how confident you feel with your studies right now
  • tips for becoming more involved in your group, classes or research
  • create your own action plan of strategies to try to boost your study confidence.

Estimated duration is 15 minutes.

Overcoming procrastination

What is covered:

  • notice when you may be procrastinating
  • strategies you can use when you're procrastinating to help you get started with, or continue, your tasks
  • develop your own personal action plan to form a toolkit of strategies.

Estimated duration is 15 minutes.

Time Management

What is covered:

  • what time management is
  • why you need to do it
  • how to prioritise tasks
  • time management techniques
  • avoiding procrastination.

Estimated duration is 20 minutes.

Developing academic resilience

What is covered:

  • what academic resilience is
  • how it can help you succeed
  • how resilient you are as you begin your studies with us
  • how to approach your studies with confidence and resilience.

Estimated duration is 40 minutes.

Read, take notes and use academic information in your assessments

What is covered:

  • best practice tips for getting the most out of reading for academic purposes
  • identifying different note-taking strategies
  • how to use the academic information you have found in your assessments. 

Estimated duration is 15 minutes.

Overcoming perfectionism

What is covered:

  • how to identify perfectionism
  • strategies to use when you feel yourself experiencing perfectionism to help you get started with, or continue, your tasks
  • develop your own personal action plan to form a toolkit of strategies.

Estimated duration is 15 minutes.

Staying motivated for your studies

What is covered:

  • Learn strategies to help you feel motivated with your studies.

Estimated duration is 15 minutes.

Professional communication

What is covered:

  • when and why to use different methods of communication
  • how to develop communication skills to use throughout your studies and future career.

Estimated duration is 20 minutes.

Approaching your presentation

What is covered:

  • planning a presentation
  • creating good slides
  • delivering your presentation with confidence.

Estimated duration is 20 minutes.

How to benefit from feedback

What is covered:

  • how to recognise when you are receiving feedback
  • how to use feedback to develop yourself.

Estimated duration is 15 minutes.

Learning how to learn at university

What is covered:

  • your learning preferences
  • the difference between surface and deep learning
  • different ways of thinking about and approaching your learning
  • how to develop a learning mindset.

Estimated duration is 25 minutes.

Teaching methods

What is covered:

  • the different methods of learning and teaching that will be used on your course
  • what you need to do to prepare for taught sessions
  • how your teaching is organised.

Estimated duration is 10 minutes.

Belonging at Salford: celebrating diversity

What is covered:

  • Salford's diversity ethos
  • what to expect when you arrive
  • meeting new people
  • reaching out and finding your Salford.
  • Estimated duration is 40 minutes.

Dealing with change: wellbeing for life

What is covered:

  • the importance of balancing your physical, mental, spiritual and emotional health
  • develop strategies to help you balance your wellbeing.

Estimated duration is 40 minutes