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...
Medicine Management: IV: Drip Rates and Infusions [online]
Starts: 4 Jul 2024, 9:30 amFinishes: 4 Jul 2024, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 90This session will look at medicine management assessment questions relating to Drip Rates and Infusions and is suitable for any students required to complete these assessments. This session will be delivered online.Getting started with finding and using information for assessments (Online)
Starts: 4 Jul 2024, 4:00 pmFinishes: 4 Jul 2024, 5:00 pmRemaining places: 46This workshop will show you how to find and use academic information for your assessments. This workshop will be delivered online.Medicine Management Non-calculator Numeracy Skills 1: Division and Fractions [online]
Starts: 8 Jul 2024, 9:30 amFinishes: 8 Jul 2024, 11:00 amRemaining places: 86This session will look the use of division and fractions in non-calculator drug calculations. Suitable for any students required to complete medicine management numeracy assessments.This session will be delivered online.Medicine Management Non-calculator Numeracy Skills 2: Multiplication and Fractions [online]
Starts: 8 Jul 2024, 11:15 amFinishes: 8 Jul 2024, 12:45 pmRemaining places: 86This session will look the use of multiplication and fractions in non-calculator drug calculations and is suitable for any student working towards medicine management assessments. This session will be delivered online.