The Your Skills programme brings together a holistic and wide-ranging series of workshops and resources, co-taught and co-created by teams from across the Library and wider University. These sessions are a great way to make sure your academic skills are up to date ahead of assessments, and include help on dissertation writing, referencing, finding information, and preparing for presentations.
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This short course will help you explore research carried out through social media, including collecting and curating information, using social media to promote your research, and some pitfalls and considerations to be aware of.
There are a growing number of resources within the Library collections that include diverse materials to support teaching beyond the traditional books, e-books and journals. Resources that include video content licenced for use within lectures or embedding within Canvas, teacher notes, case studies, lab protocols and much more. All of these resources are designed for you to use within your teaching and provide alternative learning opportunities for students.
Resource guides highlight the different types of information available from the Library. They include recommended sources alongside advice for finding and using different kinds of information in your research.
This page details the guidance and support available to researchers through the Library.
This guidance explains how to create and manage your reading lists and make resources available to your students.
Power BI is powerful data analysis software, and these four courses equip you to access and use it to produce data analysis outputs.
This short course provides guidance on creating digital artefacts such as video, audio recording, or a presentation of a text format.
Digital creation resources (about 1-2 hours).
This guide runs you through everything you need to know to get started using Excel, and covers all of the basics on navigation, formatting, using calculations, and creating graphics, charts, and tables.
Develop your Excel skills (about 1-2 hours).
When undertaking independent research for your essay, assignment or dissertation, you’ll need to manage the information you find so that you can use it efficiently, ethically and with academic integrity. We live in an age of information overload, so this may seem like a daunting task, but here we’ve got the tools and advice you need to get organised and stay in control.