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 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...
Refresh your referencing skills (On Campus)
Starts: 20 Nov 2024, 2:00 pmFinishes: 20 Nov 2024, 3:00 pmVenue: Peel Park Campus, Clifford Whitworth University Library, Learning Suite 2Remaining places: 8This workshop will cover common referencing errors people make and how to avoid them. This workshop includes a Q&A section where you can ask specific referencing questions.Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exam session (On Campus)
Starts: 20 Nov 2024, 2:00 pmFinishes: 20 Nov 2024, 3:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 1This 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.Word: Formatting your dissertation or thesis [On Campus]
Starts: 21 Nov 2024, 10:00 amFinishes: 21 Nov 2024, 12:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 5This two-hour session is a practical workshop where you will learn how to use Microsoft Word tools to format your dissertation or thesis. This workshop is on campus.Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exam session (On Campus)
Starts: 27 Nov 2024, 3:00 pmFinishes: 27 Nov 2024, 4:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 0This 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.