Workshops
Academic Skills Workshops
Elevate your skills and knowledge with us!
We offer a wide range of academic skills workshops delivered online and in-person on campus. 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...
Develop your skills: doing a literature review [Online]
Starts: 1 Aug 2024, 12:00 pmFinishes: 1 Aug 2024, 1:00 pmRemaining places: 4In 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.Doing a literature review (Online)
Starts: 1 Aug 2024, 12:00 pmFinishes: 1 Aug 2024, 1:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, CW Learning Suite 2Remaining places: 17In 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.Refresh your referencing skills (Online)
Starts: 6 Aug 2024, 5:00 pmFinishes: 6 Aug 2024, 6:30 pmRemaining places: 42In this workshop we will cover some of the common referencing errors people make and discuss how to avoid them in our work. This workshop includes a question-and-answer section where you can ask specific referencing questions. This workshop is online.Constructing and Deconstructing Arguments [ONLINE]
Starts: 8 Aug 2024, 12:00 pmFinishes: 8 Aug 2024, 1:00 pmRemaining places: 32This workshop explores the content of academic arguments, examples of good and bad argumentation, and some common logical fallacies.This workshop will be delivered online