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...
Library and Academic Support Pop-Up
Starts: 8 Sep 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 8 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, Inside Main EntranceDrop by our pop-up in the library during Welcome Week. We’ll be here to answer your questions, share study tips, and help you make the most of your resources. No booking required.IT Essentials at Salford [Online]
Starts: 8 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 8 Sep 2026, 3:00 pmRemaining places: 92This 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.Library and Academic Support Pop-Up
Starts: 9 Sep 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 9 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, Inside Main EntranceDrop by our pop-up in the library during Welcome Week. We’ll be here to answer your questions, share study tips, and help you make the most of your resources. No booking required.IT Essentials at Salford [Online]
Starts: 10 Sep 2026, 11:00 amFinishes: 10 Sep 2026, 12:00 pmRemaining places: 98This 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.Library and Academic Support Pop-Up
Starts: 10 Sep 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 10 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, Inside Main EntranceDrop by our pop-up in the library during Welcome Week. We’ll be here to answer your questions, share study tips, and help you make the most of your resources. No booking required.Library and Academic Support Pop-Up
Starts: 10 Sep 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 10 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, ConcourseDrop by our pop-up on Allerton concourse during Welcome Week. We’ll be here to answer your questions, share study tips, and help you make the most of your resources. No booking required.Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exam session (On Campus)
Starts: 10 Sep 2026, 3:00 pmFinishes: 10 Sep 2026, 4:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 10This 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.Library and Academic Support Pop-Up
Starts: 11 Sep 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 11 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, Inside Main EntranceDrop by our pop-up in the library during Welcome Week. We’ll be here to answer your questions, share study tips, and help you make the most of your resources. No booking required.Get started with academic information and reading lists
Starts: 16 Sep 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 16 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmThis workshop is useful for any student wanting to learn what academic information is and why it is important to use in your assessment.This workshop is aimed at new students, and those new to finding and using academic information for assessments.Ready, Set, Sign In! A practical student IT workshop
Starts: 22 Sep 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 22 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Peel, Clifford Whitworth Learning Suite 1Remaining places: 14Come along to this on campus workshop to learn how to sign into your Microsoft 365 account and access the Outlook, OneDrive and Word apps.