Learning at University
We have produced guidance to help you make the step up to University-standard work.
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Academic Skills Workshops
Elevate your skills and knowledge with us!
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!
Be a successful independent learner
What is covered:
- the expectations of study at higher education level
- the skills needed for independent study
- active participation, and control of, your learning
- your responsibilities as a learner in relation to engaging with your studies online and face to face.
Estimated duration is 15 minutes.
Reflective practice
What is covered:
- the benefits of regular reflective practice
- how it can help you to achieve academic and professional success
- introduction to a range of reflective models to help strengthen your practice.
Estimated duration is 15 minutes.
Developing your confidence for studying at University
What is covered:
- what academic confidence is
- how confident you feel with your studies right now
- tips for becoming more involved in your group, classes or research
- create your own action plan of strategies to try to boost your study confidence.
Estimated duration is 15 minutes.
Overcoming procrastination
What is covered:
- notice when you may be procrastinating
- strategies you can use when you're procrastinating to help you get started with, or continue, your tasks
- develop your own personal action plan to form a toolkit of strategies.
Estimated duration is 15 minutes.
Time Management
What is covered:
- what time management is
- why you need to do it
- how to prioritise tasks
- time management techniques
- avoiding procrastination.
Estimated duration is 20 minutes.
Developing academic resilience
What is covered:
- what academic resilience is
- how it can help you succeed
- how resilient you are as you begin your studies with us
- how to approach your studies with confidence and resilience.
Estimated duration is 40 minutes.
Read, take notes and use academic information in your assessments
What is covered:
- best practice tips for getting the most out of reading for academic purposes
- identifying different note-taking strategies
- how to use the academic information you have found in your assessments.
Estimated duration is 15 minutes.
Overcoming perfectionism
What is covered:
- how to identify perfectionism
- strategies to use when you feel yourself experiencing perfectionism to help you get started with, or continue, your tasks
- develop your own personal action plan to form a toolkit of strategies.
Estimated duration is 15 minutes.
Staying motivated for your studies
What is covered:
- Learn strategies to help you feel motivated with your studies.
Estimated duration is 15 minutes.
Professional communication
What is covered:
- when and why to use different methods of communication
- how to develop communication skills to use throughout your studies and future career.
Estimated duration is 20 minutes.
Approaching your presentation
What is covered:
- planning a presentation
- creating good slides
- delivering your presentation with confidence.
Estimated duration is 20 minutes.
How to benefit from feedback
What is covered:
- how to recognise when you are receiving feedback
- how to use feedback to develop yourself.
Estimated duration is 15 minutes.
Learning at University
Understand your learning preferences, the difference between surface and deep learning, different ways of thinking about and approaching your learning and how to develop a learning mindset.
Formats
Teaching methods
What is covered:
- the different methods of learning and teaching that will be used on your course
- what you need to do to prepare for taught sessions
- how your teaching is organised.
Estimated duration is 10 minutes.
Belonging at Salford: celebrating diversity
What is covered:
- Salford's diversity ethos
- what to expect when you arrive
- meeting new people
- reaching out and finding your Salford.
Estimated duration is 40 minutes.
Dealing with change: wellbeing for life
What is covered:
- the importance of balancing your physical, mental, spiritual and emotional health
- develop strategies to help you balance your wellbeing.
Estimated duration is 40 minutes