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: 18 Mar 2026, 2:00 pmFinishes: 18 Mar 2026, 3:00 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.
- Starts: 18 Mar 2026, 5:00 pmFinishes: 18 Mar 2026, 6:00 pmRemaining places: 27This workshop explores the content of academic arguments, examples of good and bad argumentation, and some common logical fallacies.
- Starts: 19 Mar 2026, 9:30 amFinishes: 19 Mar 2026, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 62This 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.
- Starts: 20 Mar 2026, 10:00 amFinishes: 20 Mar 2026, 11:30 amRemaining places: 50Week 6 10-Week Algebra Refresher Course covering 'Expanding Brackets'. Course starts Friday 30th January 2026. Follow the link for full details.
- Starts: 23 Mar 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 23 Mar 2026, 3:00 pmRemaining places: 32This session looks at the types of questions that occur on graduate numerical reasoning tests and problem-solving strategies. This session is suitable for any student that may be required to complete a numerical reasoning test as part of a job application process. This will be delivered online.
- Starts: 24 Mar 2026, 9:30 amFinishes: 24 Mar 2026, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 42This session will cover complex drug calculation questions required for medicine management assessments and is suitable for any students required to complete these assessments. This session will be delivered online.
- Starts: 24 Mar 2026, 3:00 pmFinishes: 24 Mar 2026, 4:00 pmVenue: Frederick Road Campus, Allerton, C811Remaining places: 4This one-hour workshop will show you how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to create an academic poster. It includes design advice as well as the opportunity to use PowerPoint with a poster template file. This workshop is on campus.
- Starts: 26 Mar 2026, 9:30 amFinishes: 26 Mar 2026, 12:30 pmRemaining places: 53This session will cover complex drug calculation questions required for medicine management assessments and is suitable for any students required to complete these assessments. This session will be delivered online.
- Starts: 26 Mar 2026, 5:00 pmFinishes: 26 Mar 2026, 6:00 pmVenue: MOS Exam - Certiport exam providerRemaining places: 0This 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: 27 Mar 2026, 1:00 pmFinishes: 27 Mar 2026, 2:15 pmThis workshop will cover common referencing errors and how to avoid them in our work. This workshop includes a Q&A section where you can ask specific referencing questions.