Posts in "Digital skills sessions"

Join us on a series of Information and Digital Skills sessions for PGT students, specifically designed to help with your dissertation research and writing!

Monday 11 November:
Research for dissertations and projects for PGT students

In this session we'll provide an overview of the search skills, techniques and resources…

Don’t forget to check the course booking system for new additions in the Digital Skills and Library Information Skills categories. Get Organised is on this week, with two exciting online sessions on using digital platforms, time and task management and best approaches for organising university notes and files.

Next week…

The Digital Poverty Alliance defines digital poverty as “the inability to interact with the online world fully, when, where, and how an individual needs to.” 

Ofcom’s 2022 Digital Exclusion Review sets out some of the key barriers. These include the affordability of devices and internet packages,…

Get ready to elevate your digital prowess with our upcoming training sessions! Join the Digital Skills team on campus or online for a range of sessions to improve your information and digital capabilities. Everyone is welcome to attend; whether you're looking to sharpen your existing abilities or dive into new…

Do you want to boost your digital skills? Would you like to learn strategies for literature searching or managing your notes? Maybe you want to hear about tools to make your academic work more efficient.

There’s lots of information online about improving your academic performance, but knowing where to start…

New! Open Access Requirements for UKRI Funded Longform Publications

 From 1st January 2024 the UKRI open access policy will apply to long-form publications. Monographs, edited collections, and book chapters published from 1st January 2024 are required to be open access under a Creative Commons licence no later than 12 months…

Is this the beginning of the end for the era of excessive profiteering by publishers?

2023 has been a year of unrest at many commercial journals run by major publishers. Does this signal the start of a pushback against high publishing charges and are some of the alternative (non-profit)…

AI, AI, AI… it seems to be the hot topic we’re all talking about, right? But what do we really know? What are the burning questions and concerns you'd like to discuss so you feel enabled to use generative artificial intelligence? What do you want to know about machine learning…

The Digital Skills Team will offer two additional sessions for UG and PGT students on the 15th and 16th of November:

In this session you will learn how to use PowerPoint as an effective tool for creating…

Are you just starting your degree? Getting stuck into your research? Writing up your PhD?

Wherever you are on your postgraduate research journey, we have a skills workshop for you. Our tailored programme of courses takes you from the foundations of effective literature searching through to managing your references and…