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The Library and Academic Skills Team can support you with all aspects of your academic work.  We help with understanding how to achieve your assignment brief, structuring your written work, writing in the academic style, acting upon tutor feedback and so much more.

We offer one to one appointments to help you with Library and Academic Study Skills. Online appointments are offered through via MS teams and face to face appointments are also available.

If you need some help with Academic Skills our Online Workshop Programme is a great place to start. Attend some workshops to boost your skills. Make sure you find the complementary guides too in the list below!

 

graphic for library and academic skills pathwayThe Library and Academic Skills Pathway has been created to support you and help you navigate the academic skills elements of higher education study. The path to success has been broken down into a few key sections to support you in picking the best direction you need, as and when you need it.  A great starting point is our Get Ready Confidence Checker.

 

sage skills logoSage Skills: Student Success is an interactive digital resource covering the academic and personal skills needed to help you thrive at University. As well as information and reference resources there are scenarios, videos and self-assessments, allowing you to study in a flexible way.   

To help you get started there is a video on Navigating the platform and a Student User Guide (PDF).

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Working with numbers & data

How to find resources to help with numeracy, maths and statistics

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Library and Academic Skills are offering a programme of bookable workshops that will run throughout the year

There are workshops covering a range of Library, Study Skills and Digital Skills topics. Sessions are currently available for booking from September to December 2023.  See details for the next month's sessions below.  Follow the links for more details and to book on an event. 

You can also scroll through the calendar to see which dates events are running on or go to the Workshop calendar home page to see all currently scheduled events.