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...
- Starts: 14 Apr 2026, 5:00 pmFinishes: 14 Apr 2026, 6:00 pmVenue: MOS Exam - Certiport exam providerRemaining places: 9This is a one-hour online EXAM SESSION for MOS certification. 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.
- Starts: 22 Apr 2026, 3:00 pmFinishes: 22 Apr 2026, 4:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 12This 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.
- Starts: 12 May 2026, 5:00 pmFinishes: 12 May 2026, 6:00 pmVenue: MOS Exam - Certiport exam providerRemaining places: 10This is a one-hour online EXAM SESSION for MOS certification. 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.
- Starts: 13 May 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 13 May 2026, 2:00 pmRemaining places: 51We will explore what academic information is, why it is important and how reading lists can help you find information for assessments. This workshop will be delivered online.
- Starts: 20 May 2026, 3:30 pmFinishes: 20 May 2026, 4:30 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 12This 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.
- Starts: 2 Jun 2026, 3:00 pmFinishes: 2 Jun 2026, 4:00 pmRemaining places: 100This workshop will show you how to find and use academic information for your assessments.
- Starts: 4 Jun 2026, 4:00 pmFinishes: 4 Jun 2026, 5:00 pmVenue: MOS Exam - Certiport exam providerRemaining places: 12This is a one-hour online EXAM SESSION for MOS certification. 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.
- Starts: 10 Jun 2026, 10:30 amFinishes: 10 Jun 2026, 11:30 amVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 12This 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.
- Starts: 15 Jun 2026, 12:00 pmFinishes: 15 Jun 2026, 1:00 pmThis workshop explores what journal articles and databases are and why they are useful.
- Starts: 18 Jun 2026, 5:00 pmFinishes: 18 Jun 2026, 6:00 pmIn this workshop we will learn how to use EndNote to save and manage information sources, and how to use it to create correct citations and references. This workshop is online.