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 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!
Workshop topics
Study and Research
- Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Academic writing for assessments e.g. critical and reflective writing, assessment structure, paraphrasing, referencing
- Digital note-making
- Endnote
- Finding information e.g. Library Search, finding journal articles and using databases
- Motivation and procrastination
- Preparing for exams
- Presentation skills
- Reading lists
- Resilience
IT and Digital
- Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Creating academic posters
- Creating narrated presentation videos
- Formatting your dissertation
- Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exams
Maths and Numeracy
- Numerical reasoning tests
- Medicine management numeracy skills
Library Welcome
- Library Welcome webinar
- IT essentials at Salford
Coming up...
Medicine Management: Liquid and Tablet Doses (Online)
Starts: 15 Oct 2024, 9:30 amFinishes: 15 Oct 2024, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 56This 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.Getting started with finding and using information for assessments (Online)
Starts: 16 Oct 2024, 5:00 pmFinishes: 16 Oct 2024, 6:00 pmRemaining places: 11This workshop will show you how to find and use academic information for your assessments.Medicine Management: Liquid and Tablet Doses (Online)
Starts: 17 Oct 2024, 9:30 amFinishes: 17 Oct 2024, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 57This 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.Getting started with finding academic information (On Campus)
Starts: 18 Oct 2024, 12:00 pmFinishes: 18 Oct 2024, 1:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, CW Learning Suite 2Remaining places: 16This workshop will explore what academic information is, why it is important and how module reading lists can help you to find information for your assessments. This workshop will be delivered online.