Learning at University
We have produced guidance to help you make the step up to University-standard work.
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Academic Skills Workshops
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