Academic Skills Workshops
Workshops on digital skills, academic writing, and finding and using academic information.
Workshop Schedule
- Explore the topics below and click on an event title to book your place through Advantage.
- New workshops are released at the beginning of each trimester.
- If there are no workshops scheduled, explore our on-demand webinars and eLearning resources to access support at a time that suits you.
- If you require more specialist support, please contact the Learning and Skills Team by emailing askus@salford.ac.uk.
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: 4Come along to this on campus workshop to learn how to sign in to your Microsoft 365 account and access the Outlook, OneDrive and Word apps.Develop your critical and analytical skills [Online]
Starts: 23 Sep 2026, 3:00 pmFinishes: 23 Sep 2026, 4:00 pmRemaining places: 67This workshop covers critical and analytical skills useful for academic work.Ready, Set, Sign In! A practical student IT workshop
Starts: 30 Sep 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 30 Sep 2026, 3:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Peel, Clifford Whitworth Learning Suite 1Remaining places: 14Come along to this on campus workshop to learn how to sign in to your Microsoft 365 account and access the Outlook, OneDrive and Word apps.Develop your paraphrasing skills [ONLINE]
Starts: 5 Oct 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 5 Oct 2026, 3:00 pmRemaining places: 80This workshop covers why and how to paraphrase more effectively.Constructing and Deconstructing Arguments [ONLINE]
Starts: 7 Oct 2026, 5:00 pmFinishes: 7 Oct 2026, 6:00 pmRemaining places: 28This workshop explores the content of academic arguments, examples of good and bad argumentation, and some common logical fallacies.Word, Excel, PowerPoint... Try online training courses with LinkedIn Learning [Online]
Starts: 8 Oct 2026, 4:00 pmFinishes: 8 Oct 2026, 5:00 pmRemaining places: 49Our online learning allows you to choose what to study, when and where you learn. You set the pace. Find out how to use LinkedIn Learning’s online learning courses to build and improve your Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills. You'll be surprised to find out what you didn't know!6-week Academic Writing Course (Group 1 - in person)
Starts: 13 Oct 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 13 Oct 2026, 1:30 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, TBCRemaining places: 36-week academic writing course that will take you from the blank page to finished, with plenty of useful tools and strategies to improve your writing.Develop your confidence in speaking [ON CAMPUS]
Starts: 14 Oct 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 14 Oct 2026, 2:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, CW Learning Suite 2Remaining places: 24In 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.6-week Academic Writing Course (Group 2 - Online)
Starts: 14 Oct 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 14 Oct 2026, 3:30 pmRemaining places: 06-week academic writing course that will take you from the blank page to finished, with plenty of useful tools and strategies to improve your writing.6-week Academic Writing Course (Group 3 - Online)
Starts: 15 Oct 2026, 11:00 amFinishes: 15 Oct 2026, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 06-week academic writing course that will take you from the blank page to finished, with plenty of useful tools and strategies to improve your writing.PowerPoint: Creating presentations [On Campus]
Starts: 21 Oct 2026, 3:00 pmFinishes: 21 Oct 2026, 4:30 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 12This 1½ hour practical workshop will show you how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations. This workshop is on campus.Doing a literature review [Online]
Starts: 26 Oct 2026, 4:00 pmFinishes: 26 Oct 2026, 5:30 pmRemaining places: 80In 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.Develop your Paraphrasing Skills [ONLINE]
Starts: 28 Oct 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 28 Oct 2026, 2:00 pmRemaining places: 29This workshop will run through the principles and practice of paraphrasing, helping you to condense and cite the ideas of others more clearly.Finding and using journal articles and databases [Online]
Starts: 13 Nov 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 13 Nov 2026, 3:00 pmRemaining places: 94This workshop explores what journal articles and databases are and why they are useful.PowerPoint: Creating Academic Posters [On Campus]
Starts: 16 Nov 2026, 10:00 amFinishes: 16 Nov 2026, 11:30 amVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 10This one-hour workshop will show you how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to create an academic poster. It includes design advice as well as the opportunity to use PowerPoint with a poster template file. This workshop is on campus.Refresh your referencing skills [Online]
Starts: 17 Nov 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 17 Nov 2026, 2:15 pmRemaining places: 92This workshop will cover common referencing errors and how to avoid them in our work. This workshop includes a Q&A section where you can ask specific referencing questions.Word: Formatting your dissertation or thesis [On Campus]
Starts: 20 Nov 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 20 Nov 2026, 4:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 15This two-hour session is a practical workshop where you will learn how to use Microsoft Word tools to format your dissertation or thesis. This workshop is on campus.PowerPoint: Creating a Narrated Presentation Video [Online]
Starts: 10 Dec 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 10 Dec 2026, 1:00 pmRemaining places: 47This one-hour webinar will show you how to develop your digital and creative skills by using PowerPoint to create a narrated video presentation. This event is online.Introducing EndNote [Online]
Starts: 11 Dec 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 11 Dec 2026, 3:00 pmRemaining places: 93In this workshop we will learn how to use EndNote to save and manage information sources, and automatically create citations and references.